The history of the Bowles family; containing an accurate historical lineage of the Bowles family from the Norman conquest to the twentieth century, with historical and genealogical notes and some pedigrees of Bowles families in various sections of the United States and Britain

THE HISTORY

OF THE

BOWLES FAMILY

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Mistor^ ot the Bowles jfamili?

Containing an Accurate Historical Lineage of tlie

Bowles Family from the Norman Conquest

to the Twentieth Century,

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Historical and Genealogical Notes and Some Pedigrees

cf Bowles Families in Various Sections

of the United States and Britain.

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preface.

In tracing the Bowles Family the compiler has
been content to follow carefully through the pages of
history from the field of Hastings and the fens of Lin-
coln as they advance generation upon generation, in
the peaceful homestead or far out on the faint frontier
in the company of Wolfe or Washington, Crockett or
Grant. The English Bowles pedigree is authentic and
unbroken and is here printed for the first time. The
destruction of records in the Peninsular counties of
Virginia by the ravages of war made it impossible to
construct an unbroken lineage of the Virginia branch.

In all the generations from the Norman Conquest
to the Twentieth Century the Bowles name has been
represented in those crises which appeal to the honor
and the patriotism of the best types of the English-
speaking races. The lineage has been carefully traced,
for though tradition has not been ignored, the authority
is given for important facts, and these facts are suffic-
ient to tinge the story with all the charm of romance.

The reader will see the emergence of the Bowles
name into history and how the bearers served the
British empire in the centuries of the Middle Ages, and
how in America their deeds of patriotism and the sim-
ple earnestness of their lives justify the most fervent
pride in one of the " fine old American names.'*

CONTENTS.

Saxon Origin of the Bowles Name - pp- 7, 8
Norman Origin of the Bowles Blood - 9--12

The Name in English History - - 13--21
The Lincolnstiire Parent Family and the

Name at Scampton - - - - 22—32

Famous Bearers of the Name - - 32-48

Crests and Arms - . - - - 49—50

The Bowles Roll of England - - - 51--74

Illustrations from Illingworth - - - 75--91
The Virginia Branches - 93--140 and 220--248
The Maryland Branch. Descendants of

Thomas Bowles - 141--149 and 172--177

Life of General William Augustus Bowles I49--I72
New England Branches

Roxbury Line . . - 185—203

Other Lines ... 203—206
Families in North Central and North

Atlantic States - . - 206—209

Lineage prepared by Ann Bowles Calloway 209—214

Detached Notes ... 248—252

References - . . . 253—255

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THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME.

The Bowles name is doubtless of both Saxon and
Norman origin, probably making its first appearance
in England with those fierce sea-roving Vikings who
came to conquer Kent under Hengist and Horsa in 449
A. D., although the name does not plainly appear
until 400 years afterwards, during the time of Offa
the Terrible, in 820 A. D., one of whose chieftains
was called Bolla, which is Saxon for Bowl and a name
for the head or brain-pan. As there is no immigration
of great volume recorded during the intervening 400
years it is a fair presumption that this Bolla was of
that Viking stock whose identity was submerged by
that wave of Saxon supremacy which has been per-
petuated in the Saxon language.

The name was widely extended during these cen-
turies as a name for towns and valleys, and applied
to topographical peculiarities of a bowl-shaped char-
acter, and the monk Ingulf, wlio lived in the reign of
Edward the Confessor, 1041, relates that in his youth
as he came from school he was often stopped by

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Edith, the queen of Edward, who made him recite his
lessons, and if he knew them she would send him to
Bolla, who seems to have been either the master of
the household or chief of the pantry, and of the two
positions the latter was probably the more important
among a people who considered the pleasures of the
table the chief recreation of existence, i

The Anglo-Saxons, but slightly removed, from
barbarism, w ere almost entirely engaged in war and
the chase, and gave little thought to the cultivation of
domestic refinement. The master, his family, with
servants and slaves, ate in a long hall, usually at one
immense table, the master's end being raised slightly
above the rest. The meats were served first, and af-
terward the mead, a fermentation of honey and water,
which was served from an immense bowl moved down
the center of the table and from which all dipped with
their horns or cups. This bowl vv^as under the care of
a trusted steward, whose duty it was to safeguard it,
preventing overturning or waste by the careless or the
intoxicated. This steward was called the Boli-man,
and this title is not without significance in connection
with the Saxon origin of the name Bolle which after-
ward became Bowies.

Among the knights who charged with the Ctsn-
queror at the battle of Hastings, 1066, was one who is
simply in the Roll of Battle Abbey as "Bole." As
the name Bole, sometimes spelt Boe!, is found among
landowners in Normandy previous to the invasion uf
England the appearance of the name on the Roil of
Battle Abbey makes the Norman origin as certain as
is the Saxon derivation of the name. 1 2)

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 9

As the name does not appear among those Nor-
mans who were provided with lands and enumerated
in Doomsday Book, either this Norman Bole died of
his wounds or had offended William and was omitted
in the apportionment of the lands of the Saxons, or
very probably appears under a Christian name not
identifiable with the name as recorded on the Roll of
Battle Abbey. The idea that he was among those
knights who went with Robert de Brus to the North is
slightly supported by the mention of Sir William de
Bole-Den as holding the castle at Abbey bridge over
the Tees river in York for England. He was ordered
by Thurstan, Archbishop of York, to come to his aid
at the Cuton Moor, where took place the Battle of the
Standard. As the Scots had seized both the bridge
and the ford, Sir William refused to leave the castle,
which was stormed and destroyed by the overwhelm-
ing army of Scots.— (3)

As the Norman knights about this time adopted
the custom of affixing the names of their estates to
their own Christian names, it is difficult to affirm that
Sir William de Bole-Den was the descendant of that
Norman knigiU Bole who was the companion of Wil-
liam the Conqueror at Hastings ^2 years before.

An instance of this cuscom of taking the name of
the estate is recorded in the Bole-den Book, in which
William de Hertburn, taking his name from the village
of Hertburn, changed his name to Wassyngton on
exchanging Hertburn for the village and manor of
Wassyngton, and thus made himself easily identified
as the progenitor of our own Washington.— (4)

As Bole occurs in Anglo-Saxon history and is a

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word of the Anglo-Saxon language, the origin of the
family blood as well as the name would be unhesi-
tatingly classed as Saxon except for the Bole of Bat-
tle Abbey and this custom of including the territorial
name in the patronymic, for the Saxons adopted the
Norman fashion in this matter, and the Normans in
choosing their hereditary surnames invariably took
the Saxon name of the Saxon ground which they held.
This universal adoption of this Norman custom would
obscure somewhat the origin of the Bowles blood
while illuminating the etymology of the nam.e except
for the fact that the early progenitors bore the Norman
name of William, which the strong prejudices of both
races would not permit at that time to a Saxon. This
fact, together with his knighthood, makes it certain
that Sir William de Bole-Den was as much a Norman
as the knight Bole who charged on the field of Senlac.
The name Bole is many times in Doomsday Book
(1086) as a name of estates, parishes and villages. A
few are "Bole-ton in Yorkshire; Boles-forde Wapen-
tac, in Terra of Robert Malet, Yorkshire; the villanage
Bole-tone in Culveston Hundred, Sciropscire, and
held by Helgot from Roger Norton; Bsle-beric in Ces-
trescire; Bole-bi in Yorkshire; Bole-bi in Lincoln-
scire; Bole-haugh in Devon; Bole-hestre in Bedford-
scire; Bole-ton in Durham; Bole-ton in Bole-ton Hun-
dred, Lincolnscire.'* As "ton'* or "den" is Saxon
for town it is evident that some of the places were of
considerable size and those Norman adventurers who
used Bole as a family name must therefore have been
of more than ordinary ability to have seized a patri-
mony of such an extent.

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Among the knights mentioned in an account ren-
dered in 1 1 30, the 31st year of Henry I, in the matter
of the debt which Hugh, Bishop of Durham, owed the
king, Ralf de Boles-den gave 26 shillings, 8 pence
toward its payment.

In 1 183 a survey was made by Bishop Hugh de
Pudsey, of Durham, of all the lands of the see held in
demesne or by tenants in villanage. This record was
entered in a book called the Bole-den Book, from the
fact of the parish of Bole-den occuring first in the al-
phabetical arrangement. The town of Bole-den, near
Sunderland, County Durham, gave the name to the
parish. The Bole-den Book is perhaps the most fam-
ous of those records which have been preserved from
those centuries of Norman dominion, and it has for
generations been of the- utmost importance to the his-
torical inquirer. The Bole-den Book fixes indispu-
tably the prominence of the Bowles name in the Pala-
tinate in the latter part of the twelfth century.

The Supervisor's report of the villanage of Bole-
den immediately precedes the report of the manor of
Wassyngton, and translated from the Norman-Latin
is as follows:

"In Bole-den are 22 villans, of whom each one
holds 2 oxgangs of 30 acres, and renders 2 s. 6 d. of
scatpennys, and half a scatchalder of oats, and 16 d.
of averpennys, and 5 cartloads of woodlades, and
2 hens and 10 eggs, and works 3 days in the week
through the whole year, except the week of Easter
and Pentecost and the 13 days of the Nativity of our
Lord, and during his work he makes in Autumn 4 pre-
caticns to reap with all his house, except the house-

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wife; moreover he reaps 3 roods of averipe, and he
ploughs and harrows 3 roods of averere, and moreover
each plough of the villans ploughs and harrows 2
acres and therefore once they shall have the carrody
of the Bishop, and then they are quit of the work of
that week; but always when they make the great pre-
cations they have a carrody, and in their works they
harrow when there shall be need; and they make cart-
loads, and when they make them each has one loaf,
and they mow one day at Houghton till the evening,
and then they have a carrody; and at the fairs of St.
Cuthbert every 2 villans make i booth, and when they
make the lodges and cart woodlades then they shall
be quit of other v/orks. Twelve cotmen, of whom
each holds 12 acres, work through the whole year 2
days a week, except at the three above-named feasts,
and they render 12 hens and 60 eggs. Robert holds 2
oxgangs of 37 acres, and renders half a mark. The
Pounder holds 12 acres and has from each i plough, i
thrave of corn, and he renders 24 hens and 500 eggs.
The mill renders five mares and a half. The villans
ought to make every year in their work, and if there
shall be need, one house of the length of 40 feet and of
the width of 15 feet, and when they make it each one
is quit of 4 d. of averpennies. The whole Bole-den
manor renders 17 s. of cornage and one cow in milk.
The demesne is at farm with a stock of 4 ploughs and
4 harrows, and renders for two ploughs 16 chalders of
wheat and 16 chalders of oats and 8 chalders of barley,
and for two other ploughs 10 mares."

This account of the dues of the villanage of Bole-
den is followed by the dues of John the baker.

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All through the book in rendering the dues of some
villanages the supervisor abbreviated in the account:
''They render and work in all ways as the villanage of
Bole-den."

This extract from this famed historical document
and the appearance of the name in other rolls, charters
and returns, prove that the bearers of the name had
secured positions of prominence in the northern coun-
ties, and though the imperfect orthography evinced in
the various spelling of the name, there seems little
doubt that the Norman who took his name from the
town of Bole was sometimes known as "Bole-den."

Six years after the compilation of Bole-den Book
the name of William Bowles (spelt Bole) appears in
Lincolnshire. What position he occupied in the social
order is difficult to state, but that he was a man of
prominence and power is certain. He was living in
1 189, the year in which Richard Coeur de Lion began
to reign. (6)

The fact that his name has endured for so many
centuries is conclusive that his station was at least a
knightly one, and that he must have been a participant
in the spectacular events of Richard's reign. At the
coronation of Richard occurred a great massacre of the
Jews, and Lincoln, with a large Jewish population,
echoed the dying groans of the chosen people. Soon
after receiving the Crown Richard organized his army
for the Third Crusade. He joined Philip Augustus on
the Plains of Venzelai, in Burgundy, where the com-
bined armies of England and France were mustered.
The combined armies numbered 100,000 men, and of
this number 27,000 came from England, the flower of

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the knighthood of that kingdom. Leaving Burgundy
the Crusaders proceeded to Sicily, and thence to Cy-
prus, where Richard was married to Berengaria of
Navarre. A year after leaving England the English
army was before the walls of Acre, where the graves
of 200,000 soldiers attested the fury of the fighting.
The army entered Acre soon after Richard's arrival.
Then came the quarrels of the English and French, the
advance orv Jaffa, the fierce battles with Saladin, and
at last the walls of the still fair Jerusalem rose before
them; but with ranks thinned by battle and disease
the English king was forced to turn away with the
glittering prize almost within his grasp, for news of
the treasonable attempt of his brother John and of
Philip of France to despoil him of his dominions has-
tened that journey which ended in an Austrian dun-
geon. As the demands of the feudal system and the
necessities of Richard drained England of its choicest
soldiery there is every probability that William
Bowles or some member of his family was numbered
in the Third Crusade.

In the Great Roll of Exchequer, 13 John, 1211,
Roll 4, Mem. i, is found an account rendered of "two
mares of Ingelram and Robert de Bole-don.'*

In the Great Roll of Exchequer, 14 John, 121 3,
Roll 5, Mem. 3, is found the item: "And in the expense
of the Irish prisoners and in taking them to Norham
and in bringing them back to Norham and in fetters,
chains and rings (compedibus et cathensis et firgiis) 61
s, 6d. by this writ Richard de Bolles-den."

Alane Bowles, "Lord of Swynesheade and of the
several manors within the same called Bole Hall, Lin-

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 15

colnshire, Balliver's Regis" (vide Hundred Rolls) is
the next member of the family in historical order. (7)
Alane was alive in 1272, the year of the death of
Henry III. Though there is no trace of him except his
name and position the fault is due to the dearth of rec-
ords concerning the reign of Henry III., for he was cer-
tainly a man of distinction and power. In the great
events of that time he must have borne a part, for as
he died in 1273, his active life was probably entirely
passed in the long reign of Henry III. The civil wars
of that great reformer, Simon de Montfort, engaged the
soldierly exertions of every knight in the realm, and
the fact that Alane's name is not among the lists of
knights who supported the king at the disastrous battle
of Lewes, warrants the presumption that he was an
adherent of de Montfort. He was certainly a member
of one or other of the parliaments called by the great
earl and which included all the barons and knights of
the shires.

Swynesheade, which from this time appears as a seat of
the Bowles race, was a place of some importance. It was a
tow^n in early Saxon times and was the scene of a bloody battle
with the Danes w'heu they attempted to overrun Lincolnshire.
In 1 216 occurred King John?s m.arch from the Wash across Lin-
colnshire in which he lost all his baggage and jewels in Fos-
dyke Wash, near Swynesheade, as he w^as on his way to
Swynesheade Abbey. This Swynesheade Abbey is one of the
most famous of the abbeys in Britain and is of immense histor-
ical interest. It is a splendid architectural remain of early
Norman times, having been colonized from Furness by eleven
CarthusLin monks in 1 134.— History of Lincolnshire.

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Through the thirteenth century, as in the suc-
ceeding centuries, the Bowles name is easily traced
by the eminence of its bearers, and the name seems
remarkable by reason of the freedom of all its individ-
uals from that notorious fame which aids the historical
enquirer but which adds a sinister page to the chroni-
cles of the past.

The Bowles name through ail the centuries in
Great Britain seems to have been carried worthily and
also to have been numbered among those families
which contributed much that was strong and noble to
the national greatness. They were of that order, as
Macaulay phrases it: "opulent and well-descended
gentlemen, to whom nothing was wanting of nobility
but the name."

It is pleasing to reflect that in the great rebellion
cf De iWontfort they were adherents of that early effort
for the freedom of the people, as they have been since
in more enduring revolutions.

In the latter part of the reign of Henry III. it is
recorded that John Bowles was Sub-Escheator at Kirk-
town-Hoyland, Lincolnshire, that the family was
granted the "de" by heraldic \\'arrant in 1273, and that
William Bowles, son of Thomas Bowles of Bole, held
lands in Coningsby by knight service of the Earl of
Richmond. (8)

The Bowles coat-:f-arms carried to America by
the first voyagers of the name was granted about this
time, the three standing bowls appearing on a Roll uf
Edward II., and as the Earls cf Richmond were engaged
in civil strife in England and in the wars u ith Wales,
Scotland and France the Bnv.les arms \\ ere borne in

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 17

the fighting ranks of many fierce and bloody fields.

An evidence of the eminence of the family at this
time is found in the fact that Cecilia, daughter of
Thomas Bowles of Bole, was in wardship of the Crown
on the death of her father. (9) The distinction of
royal wardship was accorded only to those minors
whose families held rank at least equal to that of a
knight. Cecilia died in 1332 A.D. and was succeeded
in the estate by her uncle, John of Bole Hall.

Edward IIL began to reign in 1327 and came im-
mediately under the influence of his mother Isabella
and her favorite, the Earl of Mortimer. The odium of
a disgraceful peace with Scotland and hatred of Morti-
mer overthrew the power of Isabella. Mortimer was
seized at Nottingham Castle and hanged on the elm of
Tyburn. Isabella, called "the she-wolf of France,"
was imprisoned for 27 years in Rising Castle, where
one of the knights attendant upon her was Sir Edward
Bowles. He was present at her funeral in London,
where she was buried with great pomp, with the heart
of the husband she had murdered placed by her desire
upon her breast. [10]

The reign of Edward III. was filled with some of
the most glorious and eventful days in English history.
Edward Baliol made a desperate clutch for the Scottish
throne, but the English defeated his army at Halidon
Hill. The English gained a great naval victory over
the French at Sluys. An English army entered Gui-
enne and on the afternoon of August 26, 1346, began
that shower of cloth-yard shafts which made the day
of Crecy imperishable. The Black Plague ravaged
the realm and made the land one-vast charnel house*

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In 1 356 occurred the day of Poictiers, where the English
archers again displayed their renowned skill, and the
king of France was led a prisoner to London. During
. all these wars the Parliament had been steadily en-
croaching on the prerogatives of the Crown and laying
deep and sure the liberties of the people. The rights
of Lords and Commons were distinctly defined and the
two houses began to sit in separate chambers. The
Commons occupied St. Stephen's Chapel and held the
power of granting supplies to the king for the prosecu-
tion of his tremendous foreign adventures. John
Bowles, son of Godfrey Bowles of Swynesheade, was
the member for Lincoln, 1355, in the Parliament of
Edward III., and must have often looked on the stately
figure of his sovereign on those occasions when the
great king was forced to appeal to his parliament for
supplies and to present his reasons therfor, accompan-
ied, as he frequently was, by the gallant Black
Prince.

In 1382, in the reign of Richard II., Ranulf Bowles
of Swynesheade was Escheator and founded a chantry
at Algarkirk, and thus became the first recorded mem-
ber of a long line remarkable for a reverent and sacri-
ficing interest in religion. [12]

In "Historic Churches and Manors" Roger Bowles
is mentioned as having restored a wing of Netley Ab-
bey which had been destroyed by fire and as having
become its abbott in the early part of the fourteenth
century.

In Lady Chapel of Gosberkirk Church, in Lincoln-
shire, was buried John Bowles, who was Sheriff of Lin-
colnshire in 1477,, the sixteenth year of the reign of

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 19

Edward IV. That Sheriff John Bowles enjoyed no
sinecure in his office is conclusively proved by a glance
at the history of Lincolnshire in those times. In
March, 1470, Sir Robert Wells, at the head of 30,000
Lincolnshiremen, was defeated at Losecoat Field, and
in 1477 an attempt to drain the Fens aroused the wild
Fenmen, ever ready for fighting, to dangerous insur-
rection, and it is certain that Sheriff Bowles' tenure of
office was a period of the most strenuous exertion, oc-
cupied with battles and executions and the control of a
population notorious as the most turbulent in England,
which even in the time of Henry VIII. was declared by
that king in a state paper to be the "most brute and
beestalie in the realm." In other times also the men
of Lincolnshire were noted as of more than ordinary
turbulence, which fact, by the speculative mind, may
be attributed to the mixture of virile races, for it is
believed that Lincolnshire was settled by a tribe of the
Belgae, who at the time of the invasion by Ceasar
were not yet thoroughly fused with the Britons, then
followed the Viking and Saxon and Danish adventurers,
to be in turn succeeded by the Normans.

The parent Bowies family, which, with the junior
branches, had now been so long in Lincolnshire, at
Swineshead and Haugh and Gosberton or Gosberkirk,
now sent a powerful offshoot to Middlesex, where
dwelt in the reign of Henry VIII. Juhn Bowles, at
Stratfort-at-Bow, Lord of the Manor of Kilvedon Hatch.
This John Bowles, who v/as gentleman usher to Henry
VIII., was doubtless attendant on that tyrant more or
less intermittently, and certainly could not fail to be a
witness of that seething turmoil of intrigue for which
that court was so notorious. Dwelling on the edge of

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London he certainly, if only by the nature of his du-
ties, witnessed that terrible procession of English
queens who passed from the vile arms of the monster
Henry to perish on the block. John Bowies died in
1532 and was buried in St. Mary's churchyard, Brom-
ly-by-Bow. His first wife was a daughter of Sir
Robert Tyrwhit, of Ketterly. His second wife was
Julyan, daughter of Sir William Roche, Lord Mayor
of London, an office to be later occupied by one of the
most illustrious of the Bovvies race, [u]

Another Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1551--1559,
and who had also been gentleman-usher to king Henry
VIIL, was Richard Bowles of Boston and Haugh. He
was married three times, each of his wives a daughter
of a family distinguished by lineage or power. Jane
Skipwith the first wife, was a member of probably the
richest family in England, and the family of the sec-
ond, Alice Dymoke, is renowned in the annals of her-
aldry, possessing for centuries, and to this day, the
hereditary right of furnishing the champion at the
succession of the sovereign. The Bowles family have
in succeeding generations made alliances with the Dy-
moke family, a sun of Ricliard Bowles of Boston and
Haugh, Charles Bowies of Haugh, thinking so well of
that breed as to choose two of his four wives from the
Dymoke family. [15J

The widow Bowles, famed on account of her great
age, was born about this time, in 1595, and lived for
124 years, dying in 1719. Proof of the age of the
widow Bowles was convincing to her contemporaries
and survived the critical inspection of her time, and
her fame promises to live as lung as the language, for
few encyclopedias neglect to include her name in their

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 21

volumes. During the eighteenth century it was com-
mon in speech and literature to signify venerableness
by the phrase ** as old as the Widow Bowles/' and
it may occasionally be heard to this day.

In examining family genealogies the whereabouts
of cadet families of the Bowles name is often discov-
ered. Thus, in a pedigree of the Kitchell family in
the possession of Mr. W. S. Kitchell, of New York, it
appears that in 1634 Thomas Kitchell, of New Inn,
London, clerk of Doon Castle, married Deborah,
daughter of Jo. Bowles, of Wareborne, Kent. (16) In
a pedigree of the Sadler family Mary Sadler is re-
corded as marrying Thomas Bowles, of Wallington,
Herts., about 1580, and in a pedigree of the Aylett
family it appears that Lucy Ann Aylett, daughter of
Carver Aylett, of Notts., married Francis Bowles, of
Grimsby. Francis Bowles sailed with a shipload of
powder to sell to the Moors, but a storm having separ-
ated him from his consorts, he found that he was sur-
rounded by a Spanish fleet, and knowing that certain
death awaited, he caused his ship to be blown up, he
and his men perishing, and destroying a large number
of Spaniards in boats who were about to board the En-
glish ship.

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THE BOWLES NAME AT SCAMPTON,

In the early days of the nineteenth century there
was a revival of interest regarding the Roman remains.
Among the numerous books published about them was
one entitled: "A Topographical Account of the Parish
of Scampton in the County of Lincoln, and of the Ro-
man Antiquities Lately Discovered There; Together
with Anecdotes of the Family of Bowles. By the Rev.
Cayley Ulingworth, Archdeacon of Stow, and Rector
of Scampton and Epworth in the County of Lincoln.'*
This book was published in London in 1810, and the
following extracts from it form that part of the book
which treats of the Bowles family:

"Scampton, the etymology of which is from the
Saxon words "seen," splendid, and "ton,'' town, is
situated about five miles north of Lincoln. The village
and church are situated about the middle of the lord-
ship. In the year 1796 some workmen digging for
stone in a field southeast of the village, and north of
Tillbridge lane, were observed to turn up several red
tiles, which on inspection Mr. Illingsvorth conceived to
be Roman. This discovery led him to explore the ad-
jacent ground. The result was that the foundations of
nearly a whole Roman villa were traced and accurately
examined, and the situation of the place, the nature of
the walls, the dimensims of some apartments, the
number and beauty of the tesselated pavements and
the regular plan of the whole, leave little doubt of its
having been a villa of great distincti'/U and elegance.

Mrs. Sarah Eolles Watson, of Hast Windsor Hill, Conn.,
very kindly furnished these extracts fioiii lliinjj^worth.

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 23

''Scampton Hall was situated in the midst of a
small park, where yet remains a magnificent stone
gateway (plate i ), erected about the reign of James L
and doubtless contemporary with the hall itself. The
elegance of this gateway and the ruins of the walls
which encircle the courtyard, the garden and the bowl-
ing green, bespeak the splendor of the mansion that
once enlivened this spot. Passing, however, beneath
the arch, scarcely a vestige of it can be discovered,
save some old walls now incorporated into those of a
farmhouse lately erected on its ruins.

''There was a church here as early as the reign of
the Confessor. The present one, a small stone struct-
ure, consists of a nave and chancel separated by a
raised step in the floor, and an ancient arch; at the
west end is a square, embattled tower. To the old
church, erected about the reign of Edward IIL, there
belong a rich pulpit cloth of Genoa velvet with a deep
fringe of gold and the name of Sir John Bowles, baron-
et, embroidered thereon, a pulpit cushion, altar cloth,
and cushion of the same. The elegance of these orna-
m.ents is scarcely surpassed by those of any parish
church in England. They were the gift of Sir John
Bowles, baronet, in 1700, v/ho had previously given to
this church a silver chalice and plate. [Plate 2]

"In the chancel on the north side of the altar is the
family vault of the first Sir John Bovvles, baronet. On
the north wall of the chancel, ever the vault, remain
affixed two brass plates, with inscriptions to the mem-
ory of Sir John Bowles, baronet, and Lady Katherine,
his wife. [Plate 3.]

"The old parsonage, situated about 100 yards
eastward of the church, built of stone and covered with

24 THE HISTORY OF

thatch, was of considerable antiquity, and ill-suited to
the conveniency of modern times. In 1752 it was
taken down, and a convenient stone house, with suit-
able offices, erected a few yards to the east of it.
[Plate 4].

**The only name yet discovered of any owner of
this estate anterior to the conquest is that of Ulf
Feniso. The family of De Gaunt, who from the con-
quest became lords of Scampton, held it for a consid-
erable time in capite of the crown. They were great
benefactors to many religious houses, and endowed
several of them with possessions in Scampton. The
first of this family, Gilbert de Gaunt, nephew to the
Conqueror, and who came with him into England, was
at the time of the survey in 1088 possessed of 113
manors in the county of Lincoln. The lordship of
Scampton was conferred on him by his uncle for assist-
ance rendered at the battle of Hastings.

^'Thomas Lawrence, esquire, in 1590, alienated
the manor and lands to Sir John Hart, knight, then
lord mayor of London. This gentleman twice repre-
sented the city of London in Parliament in the 35th
and 39th years of Elizabeth. He was twice married,
and had issue two daughters. The eldest, Jane, was
married to Sir George Bowles, knight and alderman,
afterwards Lord Mayor of London. Shortly before his
death Sir John Hart made a settlement of his manor
and lands at Scampton, with the advowson thereof, on
Sir George and Lady Bowles and their issue.

"Sir George Bowles, who became entitled to
Scampton under this settlement, was descended from
a very ancient family which had been resident in Lin-
colnshire as early as Henry III. In the reign of Ed-

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 25

ward IL they were tenants, in capite of the crown, of
lands in Coningsby, parcel of the manor of Scrivelsby.
They had at the same time large possessions at
Swineshead, which they held of the Earl of Richmond
by knight service.

"Bole Hall, now Ball Hall, in Swineshead, seems
to have been their principal residence until the close
of the reign of Edward IV., when by an intermarriage
with the family of Hough, the elder branch became
settled at Hough, or Haugh, near Alford in Lincoln-
shire, and one of the younger branches, the ancestor
of Sir George Bowles, at Gosberkirke, now Gosber-
ton, in the same county. Before the division of these
branches the Bowles family had several times repre-
sented the county of Lincoln in Parliament, and had
filled the offices of Sheriff and Escheator of the same
county, and we find them erecting chantries, and be-
stowing lands to charitable uses at Algerkirke, Wig-
toft and other places in Lincolnshire, a clear indication
of the wealth of the family in those early times.

"After the separation of these branches their re-
spective descendants appear to have been equally ac-
tive in their several capacities of the senator, the
magistrate, and the soldier. In the field and in the
seat of justice, their individual praises have been vari-
ously noticed, and whilst the historian has recorded an
anecdote of the impartial justice of one branch, the
gallantry and valor of the other has not escaped the
notice of the muse.

"Sir George Bowles, a descendant of the younger
branch, and lord of the manor of Scampton, was also a
member of the Grocer's Company, served the office of
Sheriff of London in 1608, and that of Lord Mayor in

26 THE HISTORY OF

1617, the duties of which office he discharged with a
rigid impartiality, making no distinction between the
sovereign and the citizen. A memorable instance of
this is thus recorded: 'King James not only com-
manded his book of sports to be published, but affected
to give example to his subjects by putting the Lord's
day to the same use he enjoined by his book, and it
v/as observed that his carriages commonly sat out en a
Sunday when he removed from one place to another.
Thus they passed through London soon after the de-
claration was made on a Sabbath day in time of divine
service and making a great clatter and noise. The
Lord Mayor, Sir George Bowles, commanded them to
be stopped. The officers belonging to the carriages
returned immediately to the court and complained to
the king of this violence. Upon hearing which his
majesty in a great rage swore: "he thought there had
been no more kings in England but himself." How-
ever, having cooled upon it a little, he signed a war-
rant to the Lord Mayor Bowles to let them pass, which
he obeyed with this answer: 'Whilst it was in my
power I did my duty; but that being taken away by a
higher power, it is my duty to obey.' This answer
being told to the king, he was so touched by it that he
sent to Lord Mayor Bowles his thanks for it. King
James shortly afterward conferred en him the honor of
knighthood.'

"A son. Sir John Bowles, succeeded to the estate,
was knighted and created a baronet. His son, Sir
Robert Bowles, succeeded him.

''Sir Robert Bowles was one of the Grand Jury
for trying the regicides at Hick's Hall in 1660. He
was a great encourager of the arts, and lived very

THE BOWLES FAIVIILY. 27

much with the literary men of his time. James Shir-
ley in 1652 dedicated to him "The Imposters,'* a tragic-
comedy, acted at the Private House in Black Friars.

**Rawlins executed a medal of Sir Robert with an
inscription, and one of his wife. Walpole, in his
^'Anecdotes of Painting," speaking of Thomas Raw-
lins, the medallist, says: "There is but one piece more
certainly known for his, a cast in lead inscribed to Sir
Robert Bowles and his wife."

AT HAUGH AND THORPE HALL.

"The elder branch of the family settled at Hough,
near Alford, and Thorpe Hall, near Louth, in Lincoln.
Many members of this branch are buried in Haugh and
Louth churches. The earliest monumental inscription
yet discovered, respecting this branch, is of Rich ard
Bowles, Esq., of Haugh, upon a brass plate in the
south aisle of Boston Church.

"Charles Bowles, his eldest son, had four wives,
and died in 1590, in the lifetime of his father, and lies
buried in Haugh Church, where on the south side of
the chancel is a mural monument of marble, surrounded
with the Bowles arms and those of his four wives.
(Plate 9.)

"His only son and heir. Sir John Bowles, knight,
of Thorpe Hall, lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and
James, and was celebrated as well for the gallantry
with which he signallized himself as an officer in the
army, in the memorable expedition against Cadiz, in
1 596, as also for his activity, bravery and good conduct
in Ireland. Queen Elizabeth conferred upon him the
honor of knighthood after his return from Cadiz.

28 THE HISTORY OF

**An anecdote of this gallant knight, as handed
down by tradition, is, that amongst other prisoners
taken at Cadiz, it fell to his lot to take charge of a lady
of extraordinary beauty and of great family and
wealth, whom he treated with that tenderness which
has ever distinguished the British character, by en-
deavoring to soften and alleviate the heavy hours of
her captivity. This generous care called forth senti-
ments of gratitude; sentiments which kindled into love.
Her chains became the silken chains of delight, and
freedom itself was misery. She threw at the feet of
the warrior her riches and her person, and such was
her ardent passion, that, when released, she entreated
tc accompany him to England as his page. But our
soldier had a wife at home, and neither the charms of
the beautiful Spaniard nor the powerful influence of
her gold, could prevail.

**Like a true knight, therefore, he returned where
love and honor called, and the beautiful but inconsol-
able Spaniard retired to a nunnery, there to spend her
remaining days in pensiveness and sorrow.

''On Sir John Bowles' departure from Cadiz, the
Spanish lady sent as presents to his wife a profusion
of jewels and other valuables, amongst which was her
portrait drawn in green, a beautiful tapestry bed
wrought in gold by her own hands, and several casks
full of plate, money and other treasures. Some articles
are still in the possession of the family, though her
picture was unfortunately, and by accident, disposed
of about half a century since. This portrait being
drawn in green, gave occasion to her being called in
the neighborhood of Thorpe Hall 'the Green Lady,'
where there is a traditionary superstition among the

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 29

vulgar to this day, that Thorpe Hall was haunted by
'the Green Lady/ who used nightly tot ake her seat in
a particular tree near the mansion, and that during the
life of his son. Sir Charles Bowles, a knife and fork
were always laid for her at the table, should she choose
to make her appearance.

**The attachment of the Spanish lady for Sir John
was of such srrange romantic interest, that it became
the subject of an old ballad written about this time, and
included in 'Percy's Collection of Ancient English
Poetry, ' called 'The Spanish Lady's Love for an En-
glishman.' Shenstone has an elegant poem on the
same subject under the title of 'Love and Honor.'

"The portrait of Sir John, done by Zucharo, at the
age of 36 years, having on the gold chain given him by
the Spanish lady, and a curious thumb ring, set in
massive gold, of the arms of his family, bearing 16
quarterings, elegantly engraven and emblazoned, are
still in the possession of his descendant. Lieutenant
Colonel Birch. From this portrait has been taken the
unfinished engraving seen in Plate 6.

"Sir John Bowles died in 1606, in the 46th year
of his age, and was interred in the chancel of Haugh
church, to whose memory was erected the monument
represented in Plate 7, with lines which bespeak his
accomplishments as a scholar and a soldier.

"Sir Charles Bowles, the eldest of the three sons
mentioned in the monumental inscription, succeeded to
the estates of the gallant knight his father, which con-
sisted of the manors of Haugh and Maltby-in-the-
Marsh, with the advowson of the church of the latter,
and the reversion after the deaths of his mother. Lady
Elizabeth and others, of the manor of Thorpe HalJ.

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Being a minor at the decease of his father, he was in
wardship of the crown, and was knighted by King
James at Theobalds, shortly after his coming of age in
1616.

**Sir Charles, in common with the rest of his
branch of the family, zealously espoused the cause of
King Charles I., for whom he was zealously active in
Lincolnshire. He resided at Thorpe Hall, near Louth,
w^hich place was several times the scene of skirmish-
ing and disturbance during the rebellion.

"Independently of loyalty to his sovereign. Sir
Charles was eminently conspicuous for his hum.anity,
thereby gaining the esteem and admiiration of the rich,
and the blessings of the poor. While the plague raged
at Louth, he afforded that assistance to numbers of the
inhabitants which humanity alone could dictate and
magnanimity effect. He had been abroad, and having
twice had the good fortune tu escape the dreadful con-
sequences of that malady, he knew how to prevent its
baleful effects. It is said that he visited the town uf
Luuth every morning, accompanied by his servant, and
taking with him such medicines as were proper for the
sick, he in person left them, at their houses; so that
the pestilential strides of the plague in that part of the
country were arrested chiefly by his exertions. [Por-
trait Plate 8. J

"Colonel John Bowles, the second son of the gal-
lant knight, inherited with his brother Charles an equal
portion of his father's valor and loyalty, and was a
follower of the fortunes of his sovereign. King Charles
I., in whose service he commanded the regiment raised
by his brother. At the head of this regiment he sig-
nallized himself at the battle of Edgehill and other

THE BOWLES FAMILY, 5^

places, and lastly, though unfortunately, at Alton ii>
Hampshire, 1643, where he was surprised by a d^ivi-^ri -■
ment of the parliamentary army, under the comm^id
of Sir William Waller, and being surrounded and 0/^^^
powered by numbers, he was, with a great body of his,
own men, killed in the church, of that village, Int^
which he had retired in the hope of relief being sent t3
him.

''It is said that this unfortunate event was of th^
greatest consequence in deciding the fate of the city of-
Winchester, and the king himself was so affected by-
the particular loss of Colonel Bowles, that when the
news of it was commuriicated to him he passionately
expressed his sorrow with this exclamation: 'Bring me
a mourning scarf;. I have lost oue of the best cojnmand--
ers in this kingdom!**

"Upon a piUar adjoining Bishop Morley*s monu-.
ment in Winchester Cathedral is a plate of brass, oi\
which is engraved an epitaph to the nPiemovy of Qoione^
Bowles.

"Whilst tradition has handed dowa tUe good 2lz^.
tions of the eldest, and the historian has recorded the
valiant conduct of the second, the third; son. of Sir John.
Bowles, Edward, has left behind him that meir^od-^l 'o?
a benevolent disposition v/hihh to t|;€ latest po^t&tity
will rendor the name of Bowles revered in U^^ythx Hs
lived to the a.ge of 77 years, and at, his oeattu ra l<3^>
bequeathed six hundred pounds, t<> be laid oyt IXk kiKi
for the benefit of the poor of that p^risn* Tht bt?i^*
ficial effects of this donation keep pac^ wvt^i Vut trmts^
because the money beisig laid cut i:r\ prclUa^^i^ Und,
the rents increase proportjonatet>;\ Mv^^atdl l^owks

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was buried in Louth Church, in which, on a mura! tab-
let, is an inscription recording his charita-ble and bene-
ficent gifts."

It will be seen from these extracts from the book
f f Iilingworth that the Lincolnshire branches were al-
most unanimous in their support of the cavalier cause.
But the Bo-.\ les family experienced that division inci-
dent to the great internal strifes of nations, and some
of the noblest and bravest of the Bowles name bore
arms in the ranks of the Puritan .armies, or in the civil
service of the Puritan government.

In Berry's list of the Sheriffs of Kent the name of-
Charles Bowles occurs as Sheriff in 1658. This was
the year of Cromweirs death, and it is reasonably cer-
tain that this Charles Bowles had been a Roundhead-
soldier, for party spirit was too fierce in that age of re-
ligious strife for a royalist to hold an office implying
the confidence of government.

Francis Bowles was Sheriff of Sussex in 1659.
He had been a soldier in Cromwell's army, had been
wounded at Dunkirk, and after the Restoration he
was killed while crossing Hoimby bridge by the bullet
of an assassin. [17].

Rev. Edward Bowles, M.A., was the son of Oliver
Bowles, of Sutton, in Bedfordshire. He was for a
time chaplain to the Earl of Manchester, but upon the
reduction of York he was constituted one of the four
ministers m.aintained by the State in that city with
honorable stipends. He was elected to the vicarage of
Leeds, April, 1661. Edward Bowles was one of the
sreat ministers of that time, a time in which the stern
zeal of religion turned men's critical instincts to de-^

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 35

mand the highest attainments In the pulpit. Edward
Bowles preached his course at the Minster of Leeds on
the Wednesday lecture, and once a month at Tadcas-
ter, where he was often set upon by the Quakers.
Being asked in his last illness what of conformity he
disliked he replied: 'The whole of it.* He died at the
age of 49, and was buried on the eve of St. Barthol-
emew^s day, 1662. " His oratorical powers were of the
first class, and his address winning and convincing.
In person he was tall and handsome, and his deport-^
ment modest and obliging. The following works by him
are still preserved in certain British libraries, and are
considered good examples of the argumentative religi-i
ous discussions of that age: ''The Duty and Danger of
Swearing, a Sermon preached at York on the day of
Swearing in the Lord Mayor;*' "A Reply to George
Fox,*' and "The Great Mystery Unfolded.** The
National Dictionary of Biography says "the father of
Edward was Oliver Bowies, D. D., mjnister of Suttonj
was one of the oldest members of the Westminster
Assembly and had preached before the assembled
Houses of Lords and Qrimmons. Edward Bowtea wa?i
educated at Catharine Halt, Cambridge, He was,
after the surrender of York on July 15^ 1644, ^ppohxtt*<^
one of the four parliamentary m.inisters for that QiVfx
On June iQ, 1645, ^^^ Commons voted hun out Ivan*
dred pounds. His preaching wa,s extremely- i^opjl-^t
even with hearers not of his own fakh or |^i?ty%
Among the Pr&sbyterians of York and vkjnitv h^ wts
the recognized leader, and it was said that h^ *-u^t<l SiU
York.* Matthew Poole, the commentator^ th'>ught
inore of his iudgm^ent than of any othev man'^« In

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1660 he was active in restoring the monarchy, accom-
panying Lord Fairfax to Breda, and urging Charles to
take the crown. Although the deanery of York was
offered to him he refused to flinch from his Presbyter-,
ianism. Bradbury relates that Bowles, on leaving
London after the restoration, said to Albemarle: ''My
lord, I have buried the good old cause; now I am going
to bury myself.'' Great but unsuccessful efforts
were made to induce him to conform. He died August
10, 1662. His wife was a granddaughter of Matthew
Hutton, Archbishop of York, and widow of John Ro-.
bynson of Dighton* Bowles was a man of great sweet-,
ness of disposition, of splendid physique, and of strong^
character. His portrait was in 1869 in the possession,
of Middleton Tyas, a collateral descendant. Many of
the works of Edward Bowles are still preserved."

BISHOP JOHN BOWLES was a native of Lan-.
cashire, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,
where he obtained a fellowship. He was chaplain ta
the Earl of Salisbury, and attended that nobleman in.
his last illness in 1612. He became dean of Salisbury
in 1620, and preached before the king and parliament
on February 3, 1621, and was elected bishop of Rcch-.
ester on December 14, 1629. He married Lady Bridget
Copping, sister of Sir George Copping, by whom he
had a son Richard and a daughter Mary. He was the
author of several works of a religious character, and
died at Mrs. Austen's house on the Bankside, October
8, 1637, and his body was interred in St. Paul's
Church, London, in the following month. He was one
of the most renowned preachers of his time, and one of

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 35

the best and broadest of the religious writers. Nat.
Diet, of Biography, vol. vi.

MAJOR-GENERAL PHINEAS BOWLES is first
mentioned in the military entry books in January,
1692, when he was appointed captain-lieutenant in
the regiment of Colonel W. Selwyn. In 1705 he suc-
ceeded Colonel Caulfield in command of a regiment of
foot in Ireland, with which he went to Spain and
served at the siege of Barcelona. His regiment was
one of those broken at the bloody battle of Almanza.
Bowles was captured, but returned to England, and on
the expiration of his parole returned with his reorgan-
ized regiment to Spain, where it was distinguished at
the battle of Saragossa in 1710. It was one of the
regiments surrounded in the mountains of Castile and
made prisoners after a gallant resistance in December
of the same year. As a brigadier-general he was com-
missioned to raise six troops of dragoons. He raised
these troops in Berkshire, Hampshire and Bucking-
hamshire, and they are now known as the 12th Lan-
cers. In 1719 he was transferred to the colonelcy of
the 8th Dragoons. He died in 1722.

LIEUT. -GENERAL PHINEAS BOWLES was a
son of the major-general. He served long as an officer
in the 3d foot-guards, in which he became captain and
lieutenant-colonel in 1712. He served in the cam-
paigns under the Duke of Marlborough in 1710-1711,
and was engaged in Scotland in 171 5 in suppressing
the Earl of Mar's rebellion. He became colonel of
the 1 2th dragoons in 1719, succeeding his father, and

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commanded the regiment in Ireland until 1740. He
became a brigadier-general in 1729, major-general in
1735, ^rid lieutenant-general in May, 1745. He served
as governor of Londonderry and colonel of the 6th
dragoon guards. He was a member of Parliament for
Bowdley in 1734-5. He died in 1749.

T. BOWLES, the engraver, of whom Walpole
said: "his work was the fittest to survive the eight-
eenth century," was born in 1712.-

WILLIAM BOWLES, the naturalist, was born
near Cork. He gave up the legal profession, for
which he was destined, and in 1740 went to Paris,
where he studied natural history, chemistry and metal-
lurgy. He subsequently traveled through France, in-
vestigating its natural history and mining and mineral
and other productions. In 1752, having become ac-
quainted with Don Antonio de Ulloa, admiral of the
Spanish fleet, Bowles was induced to enter the Span-
ish service, being appointed to superintend the state
mines and to form a collection of natural history and
fit up a chemical laboratory. He reorganized the quick-
silver mines of Almaden, and travelled through Spain,
investigating the minerals and natural history. He
married a German lady, Anne Rustein, who w^as pen-
sioned by the king of Spain after her husband's death.
Bowles' principal published work is "An Introduction
to the Natural History and Physical Geography of
Spain," published in Spanish at Madrid in 1775. He
is also the author of "A Brief Account of the Spanish
and German Mines," "'A Letter on Merino Sheep,"

THE BOWnLES FAMILY. 37

and an "Account of the Spanish Locusts/' Bowles
is described as tall and fine-looking, generous, honor-
able, active, ingenious and well-informed. His society
was much valued in the highest Spanish circles. He
died at Madrid on August 25, 1780.

JOHN BOWLES, writer on Spanish literature,
was a descendant of Bishop Bowles. He was called
Don Bowles on account of his eminence as an authori-
tv on Spain. He was born October 26, 1725, and
died October 26, 1785. He was educated at Oriel
College, Oxford. Don Bowles was an ingenious
scholar of varied research and vast erudition in ancient
and obscure literature. In addition to his knowledge
of the classics he was well acquainted with French,
Spanish and Italian, and had accumulated a large and
valuable library, whic was sold in 1790. He was a
member of Dr. Johnson's Essex Head Club, He pub-
lished from 1855, until his death, many books contain-
ing rare and unique miscellaneous literature, and v as
a contributor to all the great periodicals of the time.

CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES, who married
Robert Southey, was born at Lymington, Hants, on
December 6, 1786. As a girl she showed literary and
artistic aptitude, and when money difficulties came to
her in later years she turned her talents to good ac-
count. Her literary talents were considered remark-
able on account of the loneliness of her early life and
the morbid delicacy of her health. Her first work,
''Ellen Fitzarthur," a narrative poem, was published
in 1820. Her poems were published in a c<illected

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edition in 1867. Among her prose writings may be
mentioned "Chapters on Churchyards," her best
work ; "Tales of the Moors/* and "Selwyn in Search
of a Daughter." Her most interesting memorial is her
correspondence with Southey, which has been pub-
lished by Prof. Dowden in the Dublin University
Press Series. Besides the works already mentioned
she wrote "The Widow's Tale, and Other Poems;"
"Solitary Hours;" " Tales of the Factories ; " "The
Birthday;" "Robin Hood," written in conjunction
with Southey, at whose death this metrical production
was still incomplete. Scon after her marriage her
husband's mental state became hopeless, and from this
time until his death in 1843, and indeed till her own,
. er life was one of much suffering. Caroline Ann
Bowles died at Buckland Cottage, Lymington, en July
20, 1854, two years after the queen had granted her
an annual pension of 200 pounds.

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES, poet and critic, was
born at King's Sutton, of which his father was vicar,
in 1762. At the age of fourteen he entered Winches-
ter school. In 1781 he left as captain of the school,
and proceeded to Trinity college, Oxford, to a scholar-
ship to which he had been elected. Two years later
he gained the chancellor's prize for Latin verse, and
soon after left the university, not taking his degree as
master till 1792. In 1789 he published in a small
quarto volume, "Fourteen Sonnets," which met with
great favor at the time, were hailed with delight by
Coleridge and his young contemporaries, and have
since been recognized as the first notes of the modern

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 39

revolt against the artificial school of poetry, the tradi-
tions of which had descended from Pope. He entered
the church, was made chaplain to the prince regent in
1818, and in 1828 was elected canon of Salisbury. He
died at Salisbury in April, 1850, aged 88. The poetry
of Bowles is distinguished by purity of imagination,
cultured and graceful diction and great tenderness of
feeling. Among his works are " The Spirit of Discov-
ery," "The Missionary of the Andes," "The Grave
of the Last Saxon," and "St. John in Patmos." But
Bowles, perhaps, is more celebrated as a critic than as
a poet. In 1807 he published an edition of Pope's
works with notes and an essay on the poetical charac-
ter of Pope. In this essay he laid down certain canons
as to poetic imagery which brought on the famous
"Pope and Bov\ies" controversy in which Byron so
long and fiercely assailed him, but which resulted in
breaking the long reign of the artificial school of poetry
and the establishment of Bowles' principles. These
principles were that images drawn from nature are po-
etically finer than those drawn from art. The victory
of this precept formed a basis for a new method in En-
glish literature, and the era then inaugurated by
Bowles has survived to this day. Among other prose
works from his prolific pen was a "Life of Bishop
Ken."

J. BOWLES, author, flourished about 1780.
Wrote, among other volumes, "On State of Society,"
published in London in 1804.

ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM BOWLES, R. N., K.

40 THE HISTORY OF'

C. B., accomplished naval ofificer and author of many
books on naval and military subjects. He married in
1820, Francis Temple in Portsmouth. His opinions
on warlike subjects were frequently cited, and his
works long remained authoritative. He died in 1853.

G. C. BOWLES, a religious w riter. He w rute
''Church Prayers/' "Reflections on the Liturgy/*
etc.

SIR GEORGE BOWLES, born 1787, died 1876;
general, colonel of West India Regiment, governor of
Tower of London, was the second son of W. Bowles,
of Heale House, Wiltshire. He entered the army as
ensign in the Coldstream Guards in 1804, ^rid served
with that corps in the north of Germany in i8o$-6, at
Copenhagen in 1807, i^ the Waterloo campaign, and in
the Peninsula and south of France from 1809-14, being
present at the passage of the Douro, the battles of
Talavera, Salamanca and Vittoria, the capture of Ma-
drid, the seiges of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Burgos
and San Sebastian, the passage of the Nive, Nivelie
and Adour, the investment of Bayonne, the battles of
Quatre Bras and Waterloo and the occupation of Paris.
He was brevet-major and military secretary to the
Duke of Richmond in Canada in 1818-20, and deputy-
adjutant general in the West Indies from 1820-25. He
commanded the troops in the Lower Province during
the rebellion in Canada in 1838. He retired on half-
pay in 1843, ^rid became comptroller of the vice-regal
household in Dublin. He was appointed master of the
queen's household in 1845 ^^ the recommendation of

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 41

the Duke of Wellington. He resigned in 1851 on ac-
count of ill-health, and was appointed governor of the
Tower of London. He died, unmarried, at his resi-
dence in Berkeley street, London, May 21, 1876, in
the ninetieth year of his age.

Among those of prominence in England or holding
commissions in the British military or naval service in
1904 were:

SPOTSWOOD BOWLES, Ahern, Gonna, coun-
ty Cork, Ireland. He was born October 7, 1854; suc-
ceeded his uncle, Major George Bowles, in 1886; mar-
ried November 30, 1899, Grace Elizabeth, daughter of
the late Sir Edward Hudson-Kinahan, baronet. The
lineage of Mr. Spottswood Bowles is of much general
interest, and is here taken from "Burke's Landed
Gentry." This family, the name of which has been
variously spelled, is, according to an old tradition, de-
scended from a branch of the same family as that of
Colonel Richard Boles, who fell in 1643 while gallantly
defending himself at Alton Church, Hants, against the
forces of Sir William Waller, and to whom there is a
memorial tablet in Winchester Cathedral.

Thomas Boles, born 1608, is mentioned as captain
in the depositions of Colonel Richard Townsend, of
Colonel John Gifforde, and of Captain Peter Gary,
taken in Cork in 1654 by the State Commissioners as
one who did good service in securing the city for the
English interest in 1649. He is styled captain in a

42 THE HISTORY OF

deposition made by himself in 1654, and also in his
will, dated Nov. 16, 1682, proked 1683. He was ad-
mitted a freeman of Cork in 1656. His brother Rich-
ard Boles, born 1614, had a grant of lands confirmed to
him as one of the officers who served before June 5,
1649, iri the barony of Orrery and Kilmore and county
Cork, married in 1645, Abigail, daughter of Ende of
Cork, merchant, and made over his property by deed
to his eldest son Thomas, in his lifetime, reserving an
annuity for himself and wife. He died in 1693, buried
in the old church of Killebraher, where the tomb of the
Boles's of Moyge still remains. He was the direct an-
cestor of the Rev. James Thomas Boles, A. M., J. P.
for Devon, sometime of Crowcombe rectory, Somerset,
who succeeded to Ryall Court, Devon, and an interest
in Moyge, county Cork, on the death of his uncle,
Lieut. -General Thomas Bowles, in 1850.

Captain Thomas Boles had by Anne his wife, who
was buried at Cloyne Cathedral, two sons.

1. John, of Killaree, after of Inch, had no son,
his property, which was very considerable, went by
his will, dated March 22, 1700, proved May 8, 1732,
between his three daughters, who were (i) Elizabeth,
married 1694, Samuel Hodder, of Fountainstown. (2)
Anne, married Randal Warner, of Liscremin. (3) Mary
of Kilbree, after of Inch, who died unmarried and in-
testate.

2. Thomas, who carried on the family. Cap-
tain Thomas Boles, died June 26, 1685. His 2d son

Thomas Boles, cf Ballinacurra, born April 13,
1646, married 1689 Elizabeth, daughter of John Down-
ing of Broomfield, had, with other issue, [i] Thomas,

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 43

who had an eldest son, Thomas, who inherited the Kil-
bree and Carrig estates on the death of Mary Boles his
cousin. He left two daughters: (i) Anne, married
Henry Bowles, of Glenaboy and Youghal. (2) Mary,
married William Beard, of Beardmount.

2. John, of Woodstock, 1726, after of Carring-
mashinny, married Margery, daughter of John Col-
borne, of Ballintubber; will dated June 26, 1739, died
1739, buried in Cloyne, ancestor of the branches who
resided at Mogeely, Springfield and Kilmountain, now
extinct in the male line. 3. Robert. Thomas Boles
made his will Nov. 12, 1698. His youngest son,

3. Robert Boles, of Springfield, near Tallow,
married (i) 1716, Elizabeth, daughter of John Croker,
of Ballyanker, near Lismore, and left a son, i Jona-
than, died s. p.m. He married [2] 1731, Katherine,
daughter of Richard Benjer, rf Springfield, and had by
her two sons and a daughtor. 2. Sputswocd, Colonel
of the Bombay Artillery, who was killed by one of his
own guns at the taking of a fort on the Malabar coast,
married and died s. p. 3. George, if wh- m hereaf-
ter. Anne, married Charles Nixon Green, of Youghiil.

[A "History of the Green Family,'' by Th-mas
George Hennis Green, M.R.LA., contains an extended
and complete pedigree of the Bowles family where it
connects by intermarriage with the Green family. A
copy of this history was generously presented by Mr.
Green to the compiler of this volume ]

Robert Boles died 1746. His youngest son,
George Boles, after Bowles, of Mountprospect,
near Tallow, co. Cork [the name being so spelled in
his military commission and continued by him and his

44 THE HISTORY OF

descendants] J. P., born 1739, Lieutenant 7th Light
Dragoons, married 1764 Dorothea, daughter of Henry
Hunt of Friarstown, county Limerick, and by her, who
died in 1838 aged 94, left issue,

1. Henry, J. P., of Glenaboy and Youghal, mar-
ried Ann, daughter of Thos. Boles, of Youghal, and
died s. p. 1824, when his estates went between his
daughters and their issue.

2. George, of Mountprospect, Major 8th Reg. of
Foot, served in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercromby,
married (i) Elizabeth, daughter of John Nason, of
Newtown, county Cork, she died without surviving
issue; and (2) Catherine Jones, daughter of William
Hall, of Bath, and died 1826, leaving issue three sons,
I. George, of Mountprospect, died May 15, 1879, leav-
ing issue. 2. Harry, Lieut., died in India, Sept. 14,
1864, leaving issue. 3. William, Lieut. 66th Regi-
ment, died unmarried, 1879.

3. Spotswood, cf whom hereafter.

1. Ann, married Francis Woodley, of Leades,
county Cork, and had issue.

2. Catherine, mar. Lieut. -Colonel John Creigh-
ton, and had issue,

3. Dorothea, married Lieut. -General Sir Henry
Oakes, second baronet of Mitcham, Surrey, and had
issue.

4. Margaret, married Rev. Ralph Wartar Wilson,
of Kilcummer, county Cork, and had issue.

5. Charlotte, married Lieut. Henry Palmer, 68th
Regiment, afterward 37th Regiment.

6. Maria, married (i) Lieut. -Col. Browning; (2)
Lieut. -Colonel Bradish.

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 45

7. Sophia, married (i) Robert Corban; (2) John
Benjamin Bloomfield.

8. Harriet, married Major-General James Alex-
ander, and had issue.

9. Isabella de Vere, married Wm. Woodley,
Lieutenant City of Cork Militia, and had issue.

Geo. Bowles, whose will is dated Feb 12, 1792,
died 1803, and was buried at Tallow. His 3d son,

Spotswood Bowles, of Ahern, county Cork, J. P.,
Lieut. 29th Regiment, born 1784, married 1812, Jane,
who died Dec. 24, 1885, eldest daughter of Thomas
John, of Youghal, and died Feb. 2, 1864, having had
issue,

1. George, late of Ahern.

2. Thomas John, born Dec. 5, 1814, Lieutenant
99th Regiment, died March 7, 1885.

3. Henry, born July 23, 1816, died unmarried in
1859.

4. Spotswood, of Springfield, Castlemartyr, b rn
April 3, 1818, married Nov. 29, 1849, Anne Eliza Boles
eldest daughter of William Webb, of Castlenugent, J.
P. county Longford, succeeded to Springfield and Mo-
geely, near Castlemartyr, on the death of his relative
Rev. William Bowles, 1855, and died November i,
1893, having by her, who died August 10, had issue, i,
William, of Springfield, county Cork, born December

8, 1850, married January 29, 1898, Elizabeth Wood,
eldest daughter of Francis Edward Rowland, J. P., of
Kilboy House, Cloyne, county Cork. She died May

9, 1904. 2. Spotswood, now of Ahern. 3. George
Henry, born September 6, 1856.

5. William John, died unmarried, 1822.

46 THE HISTORY OF

6. John Wright (Rev.), born October 13, 1823,
M.A., incumbent of Nonagh and Archdeacon of Killa-
loe, married ist, June 24, 1852, Ann Charlotte, daugh-
ter of Wm. Henry Gabbett, of Caherline, county Lim-
erick. She died April 17, 1853, leaving issue, i.
Ann Charlotte, married November 11, 1875, Lieut. -
General Sir William Henry Seymour, K. C. B. Rev.
J.W.Bowles married 2dly June 17, 1858, Eliza, daugh-
ter of John Andrews of Ratheny, J. P. King's county;
she died August 21, 1898, and he died August 24, 1888,
having had further issue, i Ludlow Tonson, born
April 28, 1859, Major East Surrey Regiment, married
January 18, 1894, Rosa Elizabeth, daughter of the late
the Right Hon. W. S. Baxter, member of Parliament
for Montrose Burghs. 2 Spotswood Robert, MA, born
July 24, 1862. 3 John de Vere, Lieutenant R F A,
born March 19, 1877. 2d daughter, Eliza Rebecca,
died February 14, 1865. 3^ daughter, Ida Jane.

7, William Robert, born October 19, 1827, of
Liverpool, late Lieutenant South Cork Militia, married
and died March 5, 1890, leaving issue,

8 Vere Hunt, of R<;sanna, county Cork, born
April 6, 1829, Lieutenant-General in the Army, for-
merly Colonel commanding the Eighty-third Regiment-
al District; served with the 63d Regiment throughout
the Crimean campaign, which corps he commanded as
Lieutenant-Colonel from August, '67, till December,
*75, when he exchanged into the 37th Foot, and was
appointed to the command of the Eighty-third Regi-
mental District of Belfast; has the Crimean medal
with four clasps for Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, and
Sebastopol, the 5th Class Order of the Medjidie, and

" THE BOWLES FAMILY. 47

Turkish War medal; married June 4, '68, Ellen Anne,
daughter ;f Robert Hunt, of Cloughnadromin and
Green Hills, J. P., county Limerick.

1 Margaret Sarah Lydia, died an infant, 1822.

2 Dorothea, married Richard Nason, of New-
town, and has issue.

3 Margaret John, married February ij, 1862,
James Matthew Green, Captain 70th Regiment, eldest
son of Thomas Murdoch Green, of Aghadoe, Killeagh,
county Cork, and has issue; she died November 14,
1896.

Mr. Bowles was succeeded by his eldest son,

Geo. Bowles, of Ahern, A.M., Maj. So. Cork Mili-
tia, born October 8, 181 3, died February 26, 1886, and
was succeeded by his nephew.

ARMS. Az., a chevron arg. between three cups
or, out of each a :oar's head erect, arg.

CREST. A boar's head arg., transfixed with a
spear ppr.

MOTTO. Patior ut potiar.

SEAT. Ahern, Conna, county Cork, Ireland.

THOMAS GIBSON BOWLES, Member uf Par-
liament, author, publicist, traveller. 25 Lowndes
Square, London, S. W.

COLONEL ARTHUR MONTAGU BOWLES,
North Staffordshire Regiment, retired.

LIEUT. -GENERAL VERE HUNT BOWLES,
retired 1887; acting as colonel Manchester Regiment,
1899.

48 THE HISTORY OF

COL. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BOWLES,

Royal Artillery, Chief Instructor School of Gunnery.

COi-.. r i\L-ju'i-.i\iC>i'v v-»ii-.i-ji-i\ i i-<Ov\i-.*-o, Koy3.1
Engineers, commanding Second Division Telegraph
Battalion.

COL. HENRY BOWLES, Princess of Wales*
Own Yorkshire Regiment.

LIEUT. JOHN DE V. BOWLES, 48th Regiment
Royal Horse and Field Artillery.

LIEUT. JAS. ARTHUR BOWLES, Royal Horse
and Field Artillery.

MAJOR LUDLOW TONSON BOWLES, East
Surrey Regiment, S.S.O., Delhi, India.

FRANCIS ALAN RICHARD BOWLES, R. N.,
Alexandra.

GEOFFREY TATTON BOWLES, R. N., on
St. George with training squadron.

COL. HENRY BOWLES, Milton Hill, Berks.

HENRY CARINGTON BOWLES, Myddelton
House, Waltham Cross, Herts.

HENRY FERRYMAN BOWLES, J. P., Forty
Hall, Enfield, Middlesex.

ROBERT LEAMAN BOWLES, M. D., 16 Upper
Brooke street, London, W.

COL. THOMAS J. BOWLES, Streatley Wood
House, Reading.

WILLIAM HENRY BOWLES, Lawford Place,
Manningtree, Essex,

ARTHUR CARINGTON BOWLES, of Bowles'
Post Chaise Companies, and "Travellers* Directory
through England and Wales," and *'A General Atlas.'*

EMILY BOWLES, authoress, "Mme. Main-

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 49

tenon," etc.

COWLES BROS., Bankers, the Strand, London.

Crests anb Erms*

Not all the branches of the Bowles name possess
the heraldic right to bear arms, and, of course, to those
branches in America the coat-of-arms have but an anti-
quarian and sentimental interest. The simplest de-
scription of the Bowles arms of the parent family is
that given by armorial books: "Arms: Three stand-
ing bowls, or (gold), out of each a boar's head, argent
(silver), on a blue shield." The bowls signifying
the name and the boar's heads courage.

There have been twelve distinct coats-of-arms
bcrne by as many branches of the family in England,
and al' seem to have retained the distinguishing device
of the three bowls. The Suffolk branch was granted
during the reign of Henry VIII , in 1518, a coat-of-
arms closely resembling that of the Lincolnshire
family. Arms corresponding to these were brought
to America by the early pioneers and are traceable in
Virginia, where they were used during the i8th cen-
tury • r earlier for decorative purposes. The early
New England emigrants, influenced by the spirit of
Puritanism, probably cared little for either the senti-
mental or decorative possibilities of the Bowles arms,
but in later days for book-plates, seals, mural decora-
tions, stationerv, etc.. thev have in some instances

50 THE HISTORY OF

used both the arms and crest of the Lincolnshire,
or parent family.

The crests of various branches of the family as
given by "Washburn's Book of Family Crests," is
as follows:

Lincoln. "-A demi-boar az., armed, hoofed and
bristled or, pierced through the chest with an arro.v,
of the second, headed or.

Lincoln.— A demi-bcar, erect, erminis, the sinister
'shoulder pierced with an arrow, or. Motto.--- Ut tibi
sic alteri. (As to you so to another).

Kent. -"On straw, pp., an owl, wings expanded,
charged on the breast with.

Wilts.— A griffin's head erased, or. On another
out of a ducal coronet.

Wilts.— Out of a ducal coronet, or, a griffin's
head, sa., beaked and between two wings ^f the first.

Hereford and Herts. ---On a ducal coronet, or., a
boar's head couped, sa., between two wings gu., bil-
lettes of the first.

Herts.— On a ducal coronet, or., a boar's head,
arg., between two wings, gu.

Herts.— A buck's head, arg., attired or.

THE BOWLES FAMILY. ;i

Zbc Enalisb IRoll-

This Roll of the Bowles family was compiled by
Mr. George Bowles, of London, one of the best of the
English genealogists, and has been accepted unchanged
after surviving the scrutiny of experts in Britain,
V hile many of the more important details can be veri-
fied by books and manuscripts accessible to the casual
investigator in the libraries and repositories of England.
The original copy of the Roll indicated the sources
which yielded the data from which it was compiled;
but as these sources comprise wills, deeds and manu-
scripts not on this side of the Atlantic it was deemed
useless to include them in a volume designed for circu-
lation in the United States.

In the times previous to the nineteenth century,
when orthography was remarkable for its variable in-
accuracy, the name "Bowles" was written phoneti-
cally, or as the fancy of the writer dictated. In one
instance, which is typical, the father's tomb is in-
scribed *'BoIles" while that of the child is spelled
•^Bowles." But latitude in spelling was characteris-
tic of the times, and well illustrated by the remark of
Jefferson ''That everyone should have education
enough to know how to spell his name in more than

one wav."

52 THE HrSTORY OF

But orthography is progressive, and spelling which
was considered correct by our ancestors has failed to
survive the more accurate intelligence of this age, and
so the name spelled by the Saxons '' Bolla," by the
Normans ''Boel" and "Bole," and through the suc-
ceeding centuries "Boles," "de Bolle," "Bolles,"
"Bowie," "Bowl," "Bowles," etc., is now by the
majority of the descendants of the original progenitors
written "Bowles."

As the meaning of the name "Bowles" is obvious,
and as all the authorities agree with Lower, who says
in his " Patronymica Brittanica," that the name was
derived from " bowl," and the appearance of the three
bowls in the coat-of-arms from early times emphasizes
the derivation, it is not unreasonable to prefer the
spelling which in our day approaches nearest to the
meaning, and which has in both Britain and America
been borne by men of such eminence as to give it an
historical force and to stam.p it with the approval of
custcm. The descendants of de Burgh spell the name
"Burke," and the descendants of "de Belle" exercise
a similar privilege. Without expressing preference
for any of the various spellings of the name "Burke's
Landed Gentry," and "The General Armory" agree
that the names "Bowles" and "Bolles" are of identi-
cal origin.

The records from which the Bowles Roll was taken
have the name in these various forms, and the perpet-
uation in the United States of these many spellings
can be of little value even to the historian. Therefore
in printing the Roll complete for the first time it is
deemed advisable to avoid the attrition and mutilation

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 53

of the ages and to preserve the name as it is now spelt
in this the twentieth century.

A manuscript copy of this Roll was secured from
the original by the Hon. Spotswood Bowles, Ahern
House, Conna, county Cork, Ireland, and by him
transmitted to Mr. Samuel Bowies, of Springfield,
Mass., accompanying it with the following letter:

"Springfield, Conna, co. Cork.
Sept. I, 1891.

MR. SAMUEL BOWLES,

Springfield, Mass.

I now send yuu a most au-
thentic pedigree of the Bow les Family, compiled after
years of research by Mr. George Bowles, of London,
with a few additions by myself concerning the North
Aston family. This Roll is indeed a wonderful pro-
duction, and far surpasses Illingworth's Bowles Roll in
the Book of Scampton, 1808.

As you will see, your branch is proved and set
out in the ancient pedigree. . . Mr. Bowles
writes in a letter to me that he thinks the Thomas
Bolles mentioned on page 2 of **The Samuel Buwles
Genealogical Notes '* was a son of Joseph Bolles, of
Wells, Maine, in 1653, who returned to England and
went out again in the ship Speedwell to New England
in 1656.— Vide Hinman's ''Genealogy of the Puri-
tans," pp. 207-8. The will of John Bolles, 2d son of
Thomas Bolles, of Osberton, Notts, in 1665, speaks of
his brother Joseph as then in Nev/ England. It ap-
pears from the ''Calendar of State Papers, Colonial
Series, 1574— 1660," that William Bowles was Clerk

54 THE HISTORY OF

nf the Council for New England in 1622. This is the
earliest record of the name in America so far as I know.

Yours Sincerel)',

SPOTSWOOD BOWLES.

P. S. Mr. George Bowles' Pedigree is irrefut-
able, as vou will see by the references given.

S.B.

The first historic progenitor of the Bowles family
was the Norman knight

BOLE, 1066. (Roll of Battle Abbey).

WILLIAM BOLE, of Lincolnshire, reign of Richard
Coeur de Lion, 1189--1190.

ALANE BOWLES (Bollei, Lord of Swynesheade and
of the several Manors within the same called Bole
Hall, Lincolnshire, Balliver's Regis. Living 1272,
died 1273. 'Vide Hundred Rolls).

GILBERT BOWLES, of Lincoln, had two daugh-
ters, Agnes and Lucy, of Arwarthlin. Lincolnshire,
living in 1272.

JOHN BOWLES. Sub-Escheator at Kirktown
Hoyland, county Lincoln.

THOMAS BOWLES DE BOLE (Bolle de Bole), liv-
ing 1257. Gave "de Bole" 127^.

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 55

WILLIAM, son of Thomas, held lands i n Con-
ingsby, parcel of the Manor of Scrivelsby, of the
Earl of Richmond by knight service. Died 22d
year of the reign of Edward II., Jan. 2, 1327 A.D.

CECILIA, daughter of Thomas, one year and
four month's old at the death of her father, was in
wardship of the crown. Died sixth year of the
reign of Edward III., 1332 A. D.

JOHN OF BOLE HALL, born 1272, succeeded in

/1 332 to the estates of his niece Cecilia.
John of Bole Hall had three sons: William,
Godfrey and Reginald.
Reginald, of Bole Hall in GosLerkirk, married
Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Richard
Moulton. His heir,
William, married a daughter of Sir Richard Nye.

His heir,
Reginald, married a daughter of Welby.

His heir,
William, married a daughter of Sir John Tempest.

His heir,
John, married daughter of Sir Vincent Arding-
shelles (or Hardingshelles), of Saltby.

His heir,
Richard Bowles lalso Bolles), married daughter
and co-heiress of Richard Haugh of Haugh.

WILLIAM.

His daughter and heiress,

56 THE HISTORY OF

Mabel, married Sir John Woodford, knight.

GODFREY, of Swynesheade, brother and heir of
William Bowles.

JOHN, Member . of Parliament for Lincoln, twenty-
ninth year of Edward III., 1355, married Joane,
daughter and heiress of Walter Goddard of
Moulton. »

RANULPH, of Swynesheade in 1382, died before
1396, married Katherine, daughter and heiress of
John Pulcroft of Brownfield. Founded a Chantry
at Algarkirke. Escheator twentieth year of Rich-
ard II. Had son John and daughter Thomasine.
Thomasine married Sir Ralph Darby, knight.
The heir of Ranulph,
JOHN, married Mary, daughter and heiress of William
Angevyne by Eleanor, daughter and heiress of
William de Adderly.

The heir of John,
WILLIAM, married Amye, daughter of John Kyme, of
Friskney.

His heir,

JOHN, SHERIFF OF LINCOLNSHIRE in the six-
teenth year of Edward IV., 1477. Died before
1495. Buried in Lady Chapel of Gosberkirke
Church. He must have been heir of his fifth
cousin Richard. He married Katherine, daughter
and co-heiress of Richard Haugh of Haugh and his
wife Anne, who was heiress of Robert Bell. She

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 57

died 1496. She must have been heiress to her

sister the wife of Richard Bowles.
Pedigee of Richard Haugh:
Richard Haugh married Anne Bell, had two
daughters, Katherine, who married John
Bowles, and another, who was his heiress,
who married Richard Bowles.

JOHN^ THE SHERIFF, had seven sons and one
daughter Jane or Joane. The sons were Richard
of Haugh, Robert, William de Wortham, John of
Wigtoft, Thomas of Gosberkirke, Godfrey of
Gosberkirke, and Ranulph of Kilvedon Hatch.

Eldest son of Juhn the Sheriff was

RICHARD OF HAUGH, in right of his mother buried
at Markley. He married Isabel, sister of Sir
Richard Xariton of Cornwall, knight, who died s.
p. legis Jan. 6, 1506.

Eldest son,

JOHN, nephew and heir-at-law of Sir Richard
Nanfan. Died Jan. i, 1506 O. S., and then aged
26 years or more. As his brother Richard ac-
quired the Haugh and Gosberton estates one
would suppose that John died s. p. But what be-
came of the Nanfan estate ?

RICHARD of Haugh and Gosberton, Esquire and
J. P., died 1 521. Buried at Haugh. Married

58; THE HISTORY OF

Marian, daughter and heiress of John Fitzwilliam
of Maplethorpe, living 1532.

Eldest son,

JOHN, of Stratfort-at-Bow, Middlesex, Esquire, Lord
of the Manor of Kilvedon Hatch, Essex. Gentle-
man Usher to Henry VIII. Died 1532. Buried
at St. Mary's, Bromly-by-Bow. Married, first,
Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhit, knight, of
Kettleby; married second, Julyan, daughter of
Sir William Roche, Lord Mayor of London. She
died Dec, 1534.

RICHARD, of Boston and Haugh. Gentleman Usher
to Henry VIII. Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1551-
1569. Died February 6, 1591. Buried in Boston
Chancel. Married (i) Jane, daughter of Sir Wil-
liam Skipwith, of Ormsby, knight, by Alice,
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Lionel Dymoke,
knight; 12) Anne, daughter of Risbye; (3) Mar-
garet, daughter of [probably] Ranor, living April
1590.

Brothers and sisters of Richard Bowles
uf Boston and Haugh were,

1. Robert.

2. William.

3. Katherine.

4. George, of Saltfleet by All Saints, who mar-

ried Katherine, daughter of Br}'an New-
comes.

5. Lion, whose wife was named Mary and

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 59

whose children were
Richard, living 1576; '
Lyon, living 1576;
Frances.

Richard Bowles of Boston and Haugh had
by Jane Skipwith, his first wife,

Mary, married Anthony Tournay of

Coventry;
Anne, married Leonard Craycroft;
Gertrude, married Leonard Kirkman

of Kele.
Ursula, married John Kirkman,
and a son,

CHARLES, of Haugh, Esquire, died Feb. 3, 1590.
Buried in Haugh Church. Married ii) Katherine,
daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby,
knight; (2) Bridget, daughter of George Fane, Es-
quire, of Badshill, Kent; (3) Mary, daughter of
Thomas Powtrall, Esquire, of West Hallam, Der-
byshire; (4) Anne, daughter of William Dymoke,
Esquire, of Friskney. She married (2) Barthol-
emew Annine, Esquire, of Osfodly, and died Au-
gust 18, 1616. Buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

Charles of Haugh had by his first wife
Katherine a daughter, Anne Bowles.

By his third wife Mary he had Elizabeth,
who married Thomas Gilby, Esquire,
of Stanton-in-the-Hole.

By his second wife Bridget he had

6o THE HISTORY OF

SIR JOHN BOWLES, of Haugh and Thorpe Hall in
Louth. Knighted by the Earl of Essex in siege of
Cadiz, 1596. Governor of Kinsale. Born 1560;
died November 3, 1606. Monument to him in
Chancel of Haugh Church. Married Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Edward Waters, of Lynn,
Norfolk, and widow of Edward Bacon. She died
1646.

Katherine, daughter of Charles Bowles
of Haugh, by Bridget his second wife,
married Sir Edv\-ard Carr, of Sleaford,
knight and baronet.

Sir John Bowles of Haugh and Thorpe
Hall had five daughters, who were:

Elizabeth, who married George Cray-
croft, of Sallflecty;

Mary, who married Nat. Hunt;

Martha, who married Doughty;

Katherine, who married Christ. Palmer
of Borough;

Bridget, of Uffaly, who died unmarried.

SIR CHARLES BOWLES of Thorpe Hall, eldest son
of Sir John. Knighted November 12, 1616. De-
puty-Lieutenant for Lincolnshire. Served in
the bodyguard of Charles I. Born Nov. 15, 1593;
died February 1661. Married (i) Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Humphrey Stafford, Es-
quire, nf Beatherwick, Northamptonshire; (2)

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 6l

Anne, daughter of Stephens, Esquire, and

sister of Colonel John Stephens; (3) Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Arthur Chester, baronet, and
widow of Gervase Cressy, Esquire, John Win-
gate, Esquire, and Richard Duncomb, Esquire.
She married fifth Francis Layer, Esquire, of Nor-
folk. Baptized on the second Sunday, 1596; died
1675.

Secund son of Sir John Bovsles of Haugh
and Thorpe Hall was

John Buwles of Louth, who died 1654. Married
Laura, daughter of John Bradley <^f Louth.

Eldest son,
John Bowles;

Second sen,
Charles Bowles.

Daughters,
Jane, who married Harriman, of

Borough;
Elizabeth;
Bridget, born 1641, died November 22,

1687. Married Benjamin Keane of

King's Lynn merchant.
Another daughter who died a child.

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Third son of Sir John Buwles of Haugh
and Thorpe Hall was

Edward Bowles, of London, a merchant and bach-
elor.

62 THE HISTORY OF

Sir Charles Bowles of Thorpe Hall
had by his first wife Elizabeth six
or seven daughters and a son Charles,
who was born in 1632 or 1633.

JOHN BOWLES, Esquire, heir of Thorpe Hall, born
1630, died 1674. Married, first, Ursula, daughter
of George Bradley of Louth, she died 1663; mar-
ried second, Elizabeth, daughter of George Vesly
of Brampton, Yorkshire, and widow of Francis
Bradshaw, Esquire.

To John Bowles v\ Thorpe Hall by his

wife Ursula was born
Charles, Esquire, of the Middle Temple, who died
unmarried in 1699,

and
JOHN BOWLES, Esquire, of Thorpe Hall, torn 1653,
died March 12, 1732, aged 79. Married Margaret,
who was born in 1644 and died February 27, 1728,
aged 84. Buried at Louth.

John tif Thorpe Hall had b}' his second
wife Elizabeth:

Edward, Esquire, oi Brampton, wht) died unmar-
ried in 1696 or 1697;

Elizabeth, who married Rev. Thomas Bosville;
Sarah, who married Henry Eyre, Esquire.

Second Son of Richard of Bi ston and
Haugh by his wife Anne Risbye was

THE BOWLES FA/VIILY. 63

Richard, born 1570. Entered Gray's Inn, Oct.
2j, 1588. Lived at Stenigot in 1599 and at Louth
1618 and 1646. Died before 1654. His wife died
before 1618.

Daughter,

Elizabeth, baptized Dec. 12, 1599.

Third son of Richard of Boston and
Haugh, by his wife Ann Risbye, was
John, who entered Gray's Inn June 21, 1591.
Married before January, 1590, (i) Mary, daughter
of William Matham of Ballington; [2) Margaret,
daughter of Mussenden of Beasly, Lincoln.

Eldest son of John by Margaret his sec-
ond wife, was

Richard, who was under age in 1606.
Second son by Margaret was
John.

Fourth child, a daughter, uf Richard of
Boston and Haugh, was
Jane, who married Mr. Thomas Audley, of
Grantham.

SECOND SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF v.as
ROBERT BOWLES, of whom nothing is known.

64 THL H:- i' ' •• ' •

THIRD SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF as

WILfelAW BOWLES DE WORTHAM, in county
Suffolk arms: ex d me ' Hau.^h in ctuinty Lin-
coln, 1528. Settled at Osbert *n, Notts, 1541.
Married Elizabeth.

Eldest son,

WILLIAM, born 1495; ^^i<^J I575- ^~*^^ '-^ x'ears; mar-
ried U) Mar^Liaret, daughter of Henr}' Pa vs n; 2--
Lucy, daughter nf Jchn Watts, Esquire. By his
second w ife Lucy he had

WILLIAM.

Boneventine.

Mary, whc married Th<'mas Lock'\\"'>d.
Bonjamin of Osberton, born about 1542; married
Anne, daughter of Ly -n Go'^drich >if Kirkb\", Lin-
coln cour.ty, by whom he had t a o sons:
Thomas and William.
William married and h:id issue.

THOMAS BOWLES married 1) Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Perkins, < f Fishca :e, Yorivshire; 2'
Mary, daughter of William W:tl:am of LeJsio:;,
and widow of Jobson. M:ir\-, >• h« ■ : s vr. ;!:rv"
Baronetess of Sc tland in 1625, b-re two daugh-
ters, Anne, who married Sir William Dalston, and
Mary, who married William Leigh.

Thomas Bowles had by his first wife,
Elizabeth, three sons: Samuel, J(^hn and
Joseph.

SAMUEL BOWLES OF WORKSOP, born 1601, died

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bef 're 1602, married Martha, dauprhter of Robert
WnodhoLise, by whom he had a son Samuel and
dauuliters Mary and Anne.
^ AMUHL OF OSBERTON, died 1658, married Eliza-
hetii.

Mar\- married Wilhcim Leake.
Anne married Jolm Bellingham.

JOHN BOWLHS, second son nf Thomas, married (i ;

Anne, duuijhter -f Sir James S\\ innest<>n; (2)

Jane, dauuhter of Chute, and (3) Frances,

wii-' died in 1666.
JOSEPH BOWLES, third S'.n -^f Samuel Bnu les,

uent to Nev. Eni^land.

FOURTH SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF

was
JOHN BOWLES OF WIGTOFT, living 1465, mar-
ried Ciiilxrine, dcughter of MntethalK', living
146^. H;iJ t"'-' daughters, Catherine, living
1496, and J- ane, lixii^L: 14^^.

FIFTH SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF

was
THOMAS BOWLES OF GOSBERKIRK, living 1489.
Collected tiie subsid)^ fi)r King Henry Vli.

66 THE HISTORY OF

SIXTH SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF

was
GODFREY BOWLES OF GOSBERKIRKE in i40
Will probated February 9, 1532. Married Alice,
daughter of Humphrey Smallpage of Norfolk, and
widow of Alexander Booth.

Godfrey of Gosberkirk had six sons :
John, Rankyn, Thomas, Richard, George
and Godfrey.

Eldest son,

JOHN BOWLES OF GOSBERTON, in 1545, died

1550, married Rose, daughter of Anthony Irby of
Gosberkirk, by whom he had two sons, Godfrey
and Thomas, and two daughters, Margaret and
Anne.

GODFREY, who had several children, married Mary,
living 1557.

JOHN OF GOSBERTON, living 1587, was probably
a son of Godfrey.

THOMAS, probably the same as Thomas Bowles of
Kirton in 1545, died 1551, married Margaret, living

1 551, by whom he had a son Thomas and a
daughter Alice.

THOMAS, son of Thomas Bowles of Kirton, born in
Lincolnshire, came into Kent, married and had

THE BOWLES FA.WILY. 67

two sons, William and John, and two daughters,
Alice and Mary.

WILLIAM OF BROMLEY, died 1609, married [i] Jo-
anna, daughter and heiress of Henry Birch of Lon-
don; [2] Anne, daughter and heiress of a Mr.
Flurry, died 1612. His first wife bore him two
sons, Robert and William, and a daughter Emma,
who married John Cornelius.

ROBERT, son of William Bowles of Bromley, lived in
Chislehurst, Kent, and afterwards New Windsor.
He was Groom of the Tents to Queen Elizabeth.
He married Frances, daughter of George Baker,
of London, Surgeon to Queen Elizabeth.
William, his brother, moved to London.
Robert Bowles had eight children, the names of
four of the sons were George, William, afterwards
knighted, Robert and Francis Bowles of Sunbury
in Middlesex; daughters Mary, Anne, Elizabeth
and Adriana.

The eldest son of Robert Bowles, Groom
of the Tents, was

GEORGE BOWLES, of London, M. D., died April 4,
1672, who married Abigail, born 1621, daughter of
William Brooke.

Dr. George Bowles had four daughters,
Elizabeth, who married John Sampson.
Mary. Frances. Anne, who married
Major Edmond Wilson, of Brighton. Abi-

68 THE HISTORY OF

gail, who died unmarried in 1676, and a
son,
George Bowles, of Peckham, Surrey, living 1690.

SIR WILLIAM BOWLES, knight, of Clerkenwell and
Windsor, Master of the Foils, Gentleman of the
Privy Chamber, and Justice of the Peace, died
January i, 1681, married Margaret, daughter of
Dr. John Doane, Dean of St. Paul's, who died
1679. He had two sons, William and Charles.

His eldest son,

WILLIAM BOWLES, Esquire, of Windsor and Claver,
Master of the Tents, etc., married Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Charles Modyford, baronet, by
Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Norton,
baronet, of Coventry. She died in 1737. Wil-
liam Bowles of Windsor and Claver had a son,

CHARLES BOWLES, Esq., uf North Aston, died
1780, who married Jane, daughter of a Mr. Clarke,
and widow of Martin Fellowes. He had two
children, a son Oldfield and a daughter Anne.
Anne married Robert Graham, Esquire.

*
His heir,

OLDFIELD BOWLES, of North Aston, Esquire,
married (i), in 1760, Gertrude, daughter of Sir
Richard Bamfylde, baronet. She died in 1769.
He married '2' Marv, daughter r-f Sir Abraham

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 69

Isaac Elton, baronet, of Clivedon Court, Somerset,
Oldfield Bowles had by Mary, his second wife,

eight daughters,

Jane, who married Richard Palmer, Es-
quire, of Holme Park;
Mary, married Sir George Armytage,
baronet, of Kirklees;
Anne, married the Right Honorable Wil-
liam Sturges Bourne, of Festwood,
Hants;

Emma, married the Reverend Ralph H,
Brancking, of Gerforth, in Northumber-
land;

Elizabeth, married William Markham,
Esquire, of Becca Hall, York;
Lucy, married Wm. Holbeck, Esquire,
of Farnborough, Warwick;
Laura Gertrude, married Frederick Mog-
sey. Esquire, of West Wickham, Kent;
Frances, married Edward Golding, Es-
quire, of Maiden-Erlegh, Berks.
Son bv second wife, Marv, was

CHARLES OLDFIELD BOWLES, Esquire, of Nurth
Aston, J. P. and D. L., Lieut. -Colonel Oxford
Militia Born August 30, 1785; died July, 1842.
Married April 9, 181 5, Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of Matthew Lord Rokeby.

Charles Oldfield Bowles had three suns and two
daughters.

70 THE HISTORY OF

sons,

Colonel Charles Bowles,
Henry Oldfield Bowles,
Edward, born August 27, 1825.

daughters,

Jane Lydia, who married Leopold, Baron

Gronys de Frundonstein;

Laura Gertrude Anna, who married Col.

Greenwood.

COLONEL CHARLES BOWLES, born May 5, 1816,
married Martina, daughter of Dr. William Lewis
Grant, and widow of Captain A. Jackson.

HENRY OLDFIELD BOWLES, Colonel Rifle Bri-
gade, born January 7, 1818, majried Barbara,
daughter of Pelham Warren, M. D., in 1842.

THE SECOND SON OF THOMAS who came
into Kent

was
JOHN OF BRASTED, living 1609, married Alis
Ward, who bore him five children, William, John,
Margaret and Alis, who all died young,

and
ZACHARY, \Nho married twice, his sec^md wife was
Elizabeth Cox, whom he married in 1578, and

THE BOWLES FAMILY. 71

who died in 1600. She bore him three sons and a
daughter:

William, born and died in 1578;

William, born July i, 1582; he was a
grocer in London in 1612;

Thomas, died in 1 599 without male issue;

Jane, baptized September 15, 1583.

THIRD SON OF GODFREY OF GOSBER-
KIRKE

was

THOMAS, who married Jane, daughter oi George
Winter, of Northington, Leicester county. He
had two sons, Robert, and George, who was after-
wards the Lord Mayor of London. He had a
daughter who married a Mr. Keene.

SIR GEORGE BOWLES, Lord Mayur uf Lundun
(1617), born 1538, died September i, 1621, aged
83. Buried at St. Swithins, where his monu-
ment stands in a state of good preservation. He
married Joane, eldest daughter of Sir John Harte,
knight, and Lord Mayor of London in 1590. She
was the widow of Edward Gage, and died in 1636,
afte, bearing two sons,

John, afterwards knighted;
George.

Daughters:

72 THE HISTORY OF

Anne, who married Lieut. -Col. H. Smith;
Judith.

SIR JOHN BOWLES, Baronet, uf Scampton, Sheriff
of Lincoln in 1627, died March 8, 1648, aged 67.
He married Katherine, eldest daughter of Thomas
Conyers, of North Brodham, Notts. She died
September 20, 1644. She bore three sons:

George, died unmarried in 1632;

Robert, after\N ards knighted;

John, baptized May 29, married June 29,

1624.

Daughters:
Carmenissa, baptized November 28,

1614; buried February 9, 1616;
Joanna, baptized July 27, 1620; buried

October 21, 1629;
Elizabeth, born March 6, baptized March

26, 1628;
Isabel, married September 11, 164--.

SIR ROBERT BOWLES, Baronet, Member of Parlia-
ment for Lincoln in 1661; baptized April 11, 1619;
died August, 1663. Married Mary, daughter of
Sir Edward Hussey, of Hussington. She died
November, 1872, the mother of two sons:

John, afterwards knighted;

Robert, who left no issue.

Daughters:

Isabel, married Sir Peter Wythe, knight;

THE BOWLES FA.^AILY. 73

Elizabeth;

Katharine, married Thos. Walker, Esq.;

Mary, married (i) Sir Thomas Agar; (2)

Sir Miles Coke;
Anne, married George Antrobus;
Olympia, died 1656, aged two years.

SIR JOHN BOWLES, Baronet, of Scampton and
Gray's Inn, married (i) Elizabeth, daughter of
John Pynsent, Esq.; {2) Elizabeth, eldest daugh-
ter of Sir Vincent Corbet, Baronet, of Merton
Corbet. Elizabeth, his second wife, bore two
sons, John, afterwards knighted, and Henry, bur-
ied April 8, 1671, and two daughters, Elizabeth,
buried April 9, 1679, ^ri^ Sarah, heiress ^>f her
brother Sir John. Sarah died at Shrewsbury
November 7, 1746, unmarried.

SIR JOHN BOWLES, Baronet, M. P. for Lincoln,
died unmarried December, 1714.

THE SECOND SON OF SIR WM. BOWLES
OF CLERKENWELL AND WINDSOR

was
CHARLES BOWLES, Esquire, of Clerkenwell and
New Windsor, who married Martha Fuller, who
bore him f'ur sons. Fuller, Francis, William and
Charles.

REV. FULLER BOWLES, Vicar of Rueslip, Middle-

74 THE HISTORY OF

sex, died 1743, married Mary, who bure him a
son,

NORTON BOWLES, who married Mary, daughter ut
Richard Harcourt, Esq.

SEVENTH SON OF JOHN THE SHERIFF

was
RANULF (called Rankin Bolles or Bollys), Rector of
Kilvedon Hatch, Essex. Died 1511.

EIGHTH CHILD OF JOHN THE SHERIFF

was a daughter
JANE or JOANE BOWLES, who married Robert Col-
vyle about 1477.

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ARMS OF SIR CHARLES BOWLES AND WIVES.

PIRATE 9.

Ube IDirginta Branch.

In 1609 the London Company sent out 500 men to
the Colony of Virginia in the hope that this addition
to the resources of the Colony would speedily result
in the return of some profit to the shareholders.
These new arrivals were the younger sons of the great
famil es of the kingdom, and adventurers who sought
in the new land a new field for daring enter}, rise.
Though all probably possessed courage and talent in
abundance, few had the skill and inclinatio:i for those
various kinds of wearying labor so necessary in a
primitive country.

The ruin that followed to the Colony forms a hor-
rible chapter in the history of Virginia. *' Famine
and murder stalked unchecked in Jamestown. The
misgovernment of the Colony collapsed and anarchy
succeeded. HundrLds perished and the survivors sub-
sisted on roots and berries. A survivor of this dread-
ful tin.e iays : ''So great was our famine t'rat a savage
we slew and buried was taken up and eaten; and so

94 THE HISTORY OF

did divers one another boiled and stewed with roots
and herbs. One amongst the rest did kill his wife,
powdered her, and had eaten part of her before it was
known, for which he was executed. Now whether
she was better boiled or roasted I know not, but of
such a dish as a powdered wife I never heard.'*

Sir i homas Gates and Sir George Somers arrived
with 1 50 men, and were so overcome at the state of
woe prevailing thi^t it was determined to abandon the
Colony. Lvery man, woman and child was accord-
ingly taken on board the ships and sail was set toward
England. A farewell volley was fired and all took a
last look at that beautiful land they intended to aban-
don forever.

The flourishing Colony preserved by Captain
Smith had dwindled to 60 persons. It was at this
crisis that in the r.istory of the only English colony in
the new world that the first Bowles arrived in
Virginia.

Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Son ers were
but a few hours eail from Jamestov\ n before they re-
ceived despatches by boat from Lord Delaware that he
wascoming to Jamestown with provisions to last a year
This changed the aspect of affaiis, and the vessels cf
the colonists turned again toward Jamestown. Three
days afterwards Lord Delaw.re arrived opposite
Jamestown with three ships, on board one of which
was a boy named John Bowles. 24.

These men who arrived in May, 1610, with Lord
Delaware, were of a class superior in pioneering skill
to any who had yet arrived in the Colony, and the
London Company confidently believed that they would
speedily make the Colony prosperous, an expectation

THE BOWLES FAMILY 95

so well realized that they may be deemed to be the
real founders of Virginia.

Among the members of the Virginia Company in
1620 was Sir George Bowles, the renowned Lord
Mayor of London. 28.

John Bowles, the first of the name in America,
returned to England in the ship "George,** in 1612,
and came out again with Sir Francis Vvyatt, who ar-
rived in Jamestown in 1621 with i2CO pi nters. 24.

It is not known where John Bowles lived or by
what means he secured his livelihood during the first
period in the Colony, but during the second residence
he received in 1625 an allotment from the Virginia
Company of three acres of land on the east shore of
Warwick Cove. 24.

According to tradition John Bowles came to the
Colony in the sh;p "Seaflower,'* and was engaged in
fishing for a long period before he settled at War.vick
Cove. 29.

In 1639 ^^'s name as a witness is en a bill of sale
of tvvo African slaves called Diana and June, convey-
ing them from James Denbigh to Belton Aiken of St.
Martin's Hundred. 25.

John Bowles must have been a m^n of energy
and enterprise, and he probably prospered in his War-
wick Cove plantation, for he removed to Elizabeth
City county before 1641, and there is recorded : From
the Colony of Virginia to John Bowles, 50 acres in
Elizabeth City county, by hill of sale from William
Laighton and Henry Southall to John Bovvles, patent
dated June 11, and signed by William Armestead,
Gcvernor of the Colony. (26) and another: From the
Colony of Virginia to John Bowles 20 acres in Eliza-

96 THE HISTORY OF

beth City county, by bill of sale to John Bowles,
patent dated June ii, 1641, signed by William Arme-
stead. Governor of the Colony. 27.

The Commonwealth ruled Virginia in 1652, and
the first governor under the Puritan rule granted a
patent dated January 4, 1653: '' From Colony of Vir-
ginia to John Bowles and Thomas Dyer, 400 acres on
the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River. Signed
by Richard Bennett, Colonial Governor of Virginia. 30

The family was still prospering and probably in-
creasing in 1663, for another patent was granted
** From Colony of Virginia to John Bowles, 350 acres
on the Western Branch of Elizabeth River, assigned to
him by John Watts and Robert Peeh, dated February
16, 1663. Signed by Sir William Berkeley, Governor
of the Colony. 31.

John Bowles' will was probated July i, 1664, and
transcribed from the faint and scarcely legible record,
shows that he was a man of some landed wealth, and
the brevit;' of description given of important details
indicates that the will was hurriedly drawn in expecta-
tion of death :

'* Know all men by these presents : That I, John
Bv,wles, of Elizabeth City, Colony of Virginia, plant-
er, due to the weight of years and of divers afflictions,
do publish and make this my last will and testameiit,
in sound mind and memory and realizing that I shall
soon be called to die, therefore, in the mercy of God, I
desire and will it so : That 1 give and bequeath to my
son, John, of Elizabeth City County, planter, and he
shall be my heir, all the lands, fields, farms, planta-
tions, houses, African slaves, ■)r any tobacco, herds,
the ship ' Amelia,' or any goods of which I may die

THE BOWLES FAMILY 97

possessed, except

" Item. I give and bequeath to Tyler Killday the
matter of 16 silver shillings, and the tobacco and the
box now on the Elizabeth river in the ship * Cornwall,*
provise, that he, upon his safe return from London,
bring to my son Johnthe silvery powder-horn of which
he hath knowledge.

'M give and bequeath to Geoffrey Miles the mat-
ter of i6 silver shillings i.i the pouch, and one haunch
of smoked venisonne.

*'In testimonie whereof, I, John Bowles, have
aifiXed my sigii and seal to this, m> last will and test-
ament, this day of grace, March i, 1664.

JCHN BOVvLES.

" Signed and declared by the said Johi: Bowles,
as his last will and testament, at Elizabeth City plant-
ation, in the presence of

Charlton Gillett,
John Catty,
Royal Fleming.

32

The nan.e appears in Warwick County in 1678 in
an order of the Court assigning Philip Bowles to the
legol defense of Philip Smallwuod, who was charged
v/ith breach of the peace and good order. This order
reads: It is ordered that Philip Bowles, of St. Mary's,
be directed to appear and defend the rights of Philip
Smallwood; charged with bread, of the peace and good
order of this court.'* Feb. i, 1678.

It is in Han.pton Parish, York County, in 1687:

98 THE HISTORY OF

** Whereas, The Churchwardens of Hampton
Parish did summone Ann Bowles fcr insubordination,
and shee not appearing it is ordered that the Sheriff of
this Countie take her into custodie, and her safely de-
teyne until shee gives good and sufficient securitie to
answer at the next time of Court held for this Countie.

37 June 24, 1687

In James City it appears in 1701 :

** Whereas, The Churchwardens have received
from Revered Doctor Charles Bowles two sermons in
the Church it is ordered that Archer Brent pay to \ im
nine pounds of tobacco.

38 December 4, 1701.'*

About i7i9John Bowles 3d moved to New Kent
County, acquiring a large tract of forest and meadow
land. A copy of the original patent is in the Virginia
Land Office. An abstract of this patent follows:

** George the First to John Bowles, 1030 acres in
New Kent County, on the north side of Chickahominy
Swamp, for the consideration mentioned in an order of
the Lieutenant-Governor dated May 4, 1717, patent
dated July 11, 1719.

Signed,
Alexander Spotswood,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia,
in the fifth year of the reign.*'

John Bowles 3d had grandsons Benjamin, David,
Thomas, John, William, and granddaughter Eliza Betty
or Elizabeth. These were ail young men and with
their sister the granddaughter attended the wedding

THE BOWLES hAMILV 99

of Fanny Tunstall to Pierce Bradly at the Old Church
where their names were signed to a sort of guest book
presented to the bride in the hearty, rollicking spirit
of the time. 1 his wedding occurred in May, 1723.

It would seem that the Johns were the active or
more enterprising business men of the Bowles race, as
there is recorded a bill of sale of slaves by John.

Tunstall Tavern.
I, John Bowles, have this day sold to Rainey
Sprague, cf this county, two negro man slaves, by
name Nick and Ratchie, and have received for the
said slaves 94 shillings and one harrow, i warrant
Nick to be not more than forty years old, to be sound
and sensible, and a right laborer in all field work.
Ratchie I warrant to be sound and sensible, about
twenty-five years old, and to be well-skilled in the
trapping of wild critters. The right and title to said
slaves I warrant and defend against all claims, and to
have and to hold, for life, his executors, heirs or
assigns I now by these presents deliver said slaves to
Rainey Sprague.

As witness my hand and seal this twelfth day of
March, 1739, iri the thirteenth year of the reign.

John Bowles.
Attest: George IV'iason,
Oliver Smith,
Will Carey,
Lunny Lightfoot. 39

In 1745 Benjamin Bowles and Nancy, his wife,
moved a few miles west over the New Kent line into
Hanover County :

100 THE HISTORY OF

" This Indenture made this second day of iNovem-
ber between Edward V\ addell and Martha, his wife, of
Hanover, of the one part, and Benjamin Bowles and
Nancy, his wife, cf New Kent, of the other part,
wltnesseth : That the said Edward Waddell and Mar-
tha, his wife, fcr and in consideration uf eighty pounds
and ten shillings to them in hand paid at or before the
ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt
whereof is i.ereby ackn-- wiedged, hath granted, bar-
gained and sold, and by these presents doth grant,
bargain and sell unto the said Benjamin Bowles one
certain tract or p.ircel of land situate, lying and being
in the County of Hanover in the Colony of Virginia
aforesaid, and bounded as follows : beginning at a red
oak on the boling gretn road or trail, a corner blazed
tree of the s^id land and John VVyatts, thence running
down the said boiing green road or trail an easterly
course to a black rock on the one side a gushing spring
and thence along the spring run for about twenty
strides lo a line or course of ne.v marked trees, aljng the
course of said marked trees in a southerly course to
the waters of the ChiC:<ah)miay Swampe, and thence
along said w aters in a westernly course to a branch,
and thence in a northernly course along the easternly
side of the said branch to Jonn Wyatt^s line at the
corner blazed tree and thence to the red oaK on the
boling green road, containing about two undred acres
more or less, to have . nd to hold the said land together
with all and singular appurtencnces thereto belong-
ing, unto the said Benjamin Bowles, his heirs, execu-
tors or assigns, the only proper use and behoofs of him
the said Benjamin Bowles his heirs and assigns for-
ever, and the said Edward Waddell and Martha his

THE BOWLES FAMILY loi

wife for themselves their heirs, executors and assigns
will warrant and forever defend by these presents.

In evidence whereof the said Edward Waddell and
Martha his wife have hereunto set their hands and
seals the day and year above written.

Edward Waddell.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Wilson Owens,
Darby Nance,
Daniel Flournoy,
Fred Walker.

This Indenture was proved at a Court held on the
24th day of February, 1746. 40

Thomas, grandson of John 3d married Sarah,
by whom he had children. Thomas disappeared in the
woods. Thomas left (at least) two sons, Thomas
and Jesse, and one daughter whose name is unknown.

Eliza Betty married Captain Wilton Caulfield, son
of Colonel Caulfield of the British Army.

William accompanied his sister to England, and
upon his return to Virginia brorght back with him a
renowned English bull to improve the stock of the
county. William died unmarried.

David married Ann Patterson and had sons Nathan
and Peter, and daughters Sella, who married Joel Hard-
enburg, Mollie, who married Walter Guiney, and other
daughters not recorded. 45

John 3d married a Welsh lady named Sarah
Knight, according to one tradition. Another tradition

102 THE HISTORY OF

states that John ist married Sarah Knight. John 4th
however left children among them John, who married
Betsy Curd.

JOHN BOWLES 4th had probably moved into
Goochland county soon after the sale of the slaves^ as
Governor Gooch on January 12, 1746, issued a patent
to him for 300 acres of land in Goochland county, at
the head of Stinking Water Run of Appamatox river,
in consideration of Thirty shillings. 46

John Bowles 4th was probably the oldest of the
brothers, as his name appears first in the Biblical rec-
ord. His son

JOHN was born June 8, 1743, died August 5, 1836;
married Betsy Curd. Their children were:

BENJAMIN, born Oct. 5, 1765, mar. Miss Strange of
Fluvanna co.

MOLLIE, born Dec. 13, 1767, mar. Thomas Bowles
and moved to Kentucky; both died soon after get-
ting there.

SALLY W., born Feb. 7, 1769, married Mr. Glen, of
South Cdroiina.

BETSY, married Robert Glen, of South Carolina.

ANDERSON, born Dec. 20, 1774.

JOHN, born Feb. 13, 1776.

CHARLES KNIGHT, born June 5, 1787; died Feb.
10, i860. He married Lucy Price Jackson of
Louisa county, Nov. 15, 1807; she died March 6,

^ 1855. The children of this union were:

JOHN JACKSON, born Oct. i, 1808; died June
I, 1810.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 103

CATHARINE WHITE, born July 6, 1810; married
Jesse T. Bowles; their three sons are dead.

JOSEPH KNIGHT, born Feb. 26, 1812, died Feb.
20, 1896; mar. Miss Sallie Fuqua of Bedford co.
They have two sons.

ELIZABETH ANN, born June 14, 1814, living
1904; she married Boiling S. Dandridge, and
has three living daughters, and children dead.

NANCY MILLS, born Aug. 25, 1816; died May
20, 1835.

JOHN PRICE, born July 16, 1818; died June 3,
1892; mar. Justinia Arlington Walton April 22,
1840.

LUCY PRICE, mar. Joseph Saunders; a daughter
and son living in 1904

POLLY JACKSON, born Nov.14, 1820; died Feb.
28. 1847; married Jesse Grubbs; had a daught-
er and son,

VIRGINIA CAROLINE, born Jan. 19, 1825; died
March 26, 1844; married Edward Cocke; two
sons, both living in 1904

MISSOURA A., born Feb. 9, 1827; married Wm.
Lacy, who died in the Confederate army leaving
her with nine children. She married the sec-
ond time O. T. Mitchell, by whom she had one
daughter, now dead.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. August 9, 1829; died
November 3, 1903; married Sallie Anderson
Perkins, who bore him two sons.

ALMIRA, born October 6, 1830; married John
Winston, now dead, by whom she had a son
and a daughter.

JULIA ASSINATH, born February 21, 1835; died

104 THE HISTORY OF

1864; married James Wright of Louisa county.
Two children of this union, a son and daughter,
living in 1904,

The children of John Price Bowles and
Justinia Arlington Walton werer

MARY ELIZABETH, b. April 5, 1841; mar. Benjamin
K. Cocke, a farmer of Hanover co., Dec. 1865.
They have four daughters and two sons.

JOEL BENJAMIN, b. Sept. 27, 1844; mar. Miss Eu-
genia Thomas Oct. 1871; they have three daught-
ers and four sons. Joel Benjamin is a farmer in
Goochland co.

LUCY ANNE, b. Jan. 3, 1848; married James Hoye,
a merchaat of Goochland co.

KATHARINE PRICE, b. June 7, 1851; died March 22,
1872.

ADELIA ARCHER, b. January 21, 1846; mar. John W.
Sheltcn, a farmer of Louisa co., on January 21,
1875. They have five daughters and four sons.

JUSTINIA VIRGINIA, b. June 5, 1859; married Jas.
G. Windle of Shenandoah county; they now live
in Louisa county, and have three daughters and
two sons living.

VIVIAN KNIGHT, b. Oct. 11, 1863; married Nancy
Knight Perkins of Louisa, who died Jan. 1901,
leaving two daughters and four sons. Vivian is a
farmer of Hanover county. 48

John Bowles was possessed of considerable lands
and there are recorded many patents, grants, deeds,
etc., in the western counties and what is now Ken-

THE BOWLES FAMILY 105

tucky. He purchased also a tract of 320 acres in Albe-
marle county from Henry Mosby on January 3, 176$.

John Bowles was in the service of the United
States during the Revolution, but in what capacity is
unknown. 1 he abstracts of land grants to John are:

"Commonwealth of Virginia to John Bowles, 237
acres in Washington county, on both sides of the south
fork of Holstein river, in consideration of one pound
five shillings sterling and a certificate in right of settle-
ment. Grant dated July 12, 1785, and signed by
Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia.*'

'^Commonwealth of Virginia to John Bowles, 400
acres in Washington county, on the watars of the Mid-
dle Fork of Holstein river, in consideration of two
pounds sterling and a certificate in right of settlamant.
Grant datad May 7, 1787. Signed by Beverly Ran-
dolph, Lieut-Governor of Virginia.'*

"Commonwealth of Virginia to John Bowles, 6751
acres in Lincoln county, on the waters of Rockcastle,
in consideration of a Land Office Treasury Warrant*
Grant dated May 12, 1788. Signed by Edmund Ran-
dolph, Governor of Virginia."

"Commonwealth of Virginia to John Bowles, 157
acres in Washington county^ in consideration of a Land
Office Treasury Warrant. Grant dated November 2,
I793« Signed by Henry Lee, Governor of Virginia."

49
Many of the Bowles families about this time show
their connection in the Christian names, which, to-
gether with residence in the same locality, is sufficient
evidence of kinship. It is therefore almost certain
that a brother of John Bowles 5th was »

,jo6 THE HISTORY OF

KNIGHT BOWLES, born in Hanover county about
1745; mar. (i) Miss Curd, (2) Miss Wood. He
served in the Revolution, and was made co-guard-
ian with Thomas P. Bowles of the children of Rus-
sell. Bowles in an order directing "that the names
of said children, viz., John, Caroline, Bolman and
Richard, orphans of Russell Bowles, late a soldier
in the Continental Army, and who died in the
service, be placed upon the list of pensioners,
with an allowance of 12 pounds per annum.''
Signed by Lieuf-Governor James Wood dated
Sept. 4, 1790^ Knight Bowles bought 220 acres
in Fluvanna county from Coke Bowles iu 1799. In
1801 he bought 49 acres from Daniel Ellis and
wife, dated Oct. 5. He b ught also from E. Per-
kins and wife lot of land devised to Barshaba,
wife of said Perkins, by John Ellis' last will. In
181 1 he and wife Patty conveyed to Chris Wood-
ward 86 acres, dated Dec. 23. He oa ned at this
time much land in Hanover county, and in 1805 he
owned 155 acres in Henrico co. By the marriage
to Miss Curd the children were:

Anderson, born about 1774.

John, born Feb. 17, 1776; mar. Aug. 21,

1810, Susan Du Val Ellis.
By the marriage to Miss Weod:

Drury Wood Knight, married Elizabeth
Richardson.
ANDERSON was Chief Justice and High Sheriff of
Hanover county 1820 to 1832. He left descend-
ants, among whom is R. C. Bowles, a grandson,
of Fluvanna county.
JOHN, who married Susan Ellis, left two sons:

THE BOWLES FAMILY lOf

RICHARD KEY, born Nov. lo, iSii; died unmar-
ried Feb. 1885.
AUGUSTUS KNiGHT, born June 29, 1814, and

: died March 10, 1883. He married Elizabeth

Blayden Anderson April 18, 1843. Their eleven
children were:

LUCY ANN, born April 12, 1844; married Jos. W.
Dabney, of Comanche, Tex., Mar. 25, 1873, ^^id
died Aug. 4, 1886, leaving eight children.

MARY GOODWIN, born Jan. 8, 1846; mar. T. M.
Gathright Sept. i, 1869, ^^id have eight children.

SUSAN ELLIS, born Jan. 8, 1848, mar. J. M. Davis
Nov. 8, 1876. They have six children.

WILLIAM ANDERSON, born Feb. 26, 1850; married
Mrs. Martha Hope J nes, Aiay 13, 1884. They
have four children. Wm. Anderson is Superin-
tendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and
Blind, at Staunton, Virginia, and is a prominent
educator.

J. RICHARD, born April 15, 1852; n arri^d Mattie
Winston Anderson Feb. 1879. They have three
children.

DAISY BELLE, born April 10, 1854; married W. G.
Davis Dec. 24, 1876; died Nov. 21, 1884, leaving
three children.

CARROLL, born Aug. 2, 1856; died June 3, 1S76.

HUGH GOODWIN, born Dec. 18, 1858; married
Gertrude Haring Jan. 26, 1886. They have two
children.

MATTHEW ARCHER, born Mar. 19, 1872; died Oct.
1902.

AUGUSTUS KNIGHT, JR., born July 29, 1865.

BETTY LEWIS, born Mar. 30, 1869. ^etty Lewis is

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•d teacher in the School for the Deaf, Ogden, Utah.

The son of Knight and Miss Wood was
JUDGE DRURY WOOD KNIGHT, mar. Elizabeth
Richardson; Colonel in Confederate Army, many
years Member of Legislature; Judge for Fluvanna
county, a prominent man and fine type of Virginia
gentleman. He lived in Bowlesville, Fluvanna
county. A daughter of Col. Bodies married Dr.
Wm. B. Gray of Richmond, Va, Among the sons
of CoL Bowles were:
MAJOR JOHN S. BOWLES, of Wilmington, Va.
GEORGE BOWLES, of Fluvanna county.
THOMAS JOSIAH BOWLES, married Anna B.
Crump. He is a contractor in Richmond. Their
children are:
JAMES WIRT, b. Jan. 19, 1870; Teller in Na-
tional Bank of Va.

WILLIE HUNTER, b. Oct. 4, 1874; married
Bessie Peele Lefew of Richmond. Their son
Gordon Lefew was born in Richmond. Willie
Hunter is manager of Swift & Co's plant in
Richmond.

ROBERT CRUMP, b. Augrst 10, 1877; weigh-
master Va. Portland Cement Co., Crcigsville.
CHARLES KNIGHT, Aug. 10, 1880; manager
Beaufort Lithia Water Co. at Richmond.
LOUISE, b. Sept. 15, 1888.

Walter Bowles of Bula, Goochland county, is a
grandson of Drury Wood Knight Bowles, and other de-
scendants live in almost every State from Virginia to
California.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 109

BENJAMIN, grandson of John j6, received the fol-
lowing patents: '*George the Second to Benjamin
Bowles, 400 acres in Lunenburgh county on the south
side of Meherrin river, in consideration of forty shil-
lings, patent dated September 10, 1755. Signed by
Robert Dinu iddie, Lieut. -Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the Colony of Virginia."

"George the Second to Benjamin Bowles, 93
acres in Henrico county, in consideration of ten shil-
lings. Patent dated December 15, 1757. Signed by
Robert Dinwiddie, Lieut. -Governor and Commander-
in-Chief of the Colony." 51

Tradition says that Benjamin was a man of great
wealth, that he was a large slaveholder and that he
built mills on" the Chickahominy river. It is certain
that he was a large landowner in the middle of the
eighteenth century; but it is probably his son who was
contractor for the army during the French and Indian
War, and who was mentioned in the account books of
Colonel Byrd as having supplied the Virginia troops
with white tenting cloth. Land Office Warrants were
issued to him for serv.ces also:

"To the principal Surveyor of any county within
the Commonv\ ealth of Virginia: This shall be your
warrant to survey and lay off in one or more surveys
for Benjamin Bowles, assignee, his heirs or assigns,
the quantity of four hundred and fifty acres of land,
due unto the said Benjamin Bowles for military servi-
ces performed by Peter Bailey, David Stanford, Jos-
eph Whitloe, Matthew Riddle, John Stanley and Thos.
Green, Jr., in the late war between Great Britain and
France, Certificates of which duly proven are received
into the Land Office. Dated October 4, 1779.''

no THE HISTORY OF

**To the Principal Surveyor of any county within
the Commonwealth of Virginia: This shall be your
warrant to survey and lay off in one or more surveys,
for Benjamin Bowles, assignee of William Hubbard,
son and heir-at-law of James Hubbard, and David
Lawson, heir-at-law of Peter Lawson, his heirs or as-
signs, the quantity of one hundred acres ■ f land due
unto the said Benjamin for military services performed
by the said James Hubbaid and Peter La\\son, de-
ceased, as soldiers in the Second Virginia Regiment
during the war between Great Britain and France, ac-
cording to the terms of the king of Great Britain's pro-
clamation of 1763, a certificate of which duly proven is
received into the Land Office. Dated October 9,
1779/' 52

.;; Among the sons of Benjamin were

DAVID,
ZACHARIAH,
BENJAMIN,
JOSHUA,
NATHAN..

Among Benjamin's daughters were
Susanna, who married Joshua Pleasants of Louisi

county. She died in 1820, aged 80 years. Some

of her children moved to Kentucky.
Nary.

DAVID very possibly moved to Henrico county
after the French and Indian War, and there is a patent
dated August 3, 1771: ^'George the Third to David
Bowles, 234 and 1-2 acres in Henrico county, by pat-
ent, in consideration of two pounds of tobacco for
every acre of land. Signed William Nelson, President
of Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony."

THE BOWLES FAMILY in

David's wife was named Winnie and he sold to his
brother Benjamin two tracts 444 and 1-2 acres in Hen-
rico county February 28, 1788. 53
It is recorded about this time that David Bowles
was one of the *'processioners" of land boundaries
in Hanover county.

ZACHARIAH was a soldier in the Continental army,
enlisting in Colonel Sheppard's Riflemen with
Sergeant Thomas Philip Bowles, and then into
Colonel Charles Harrison's Regiment of Artillery*
from which he was honorably discharged January
10, 1780, while the regiment was at the Park of
Artillery, Morristown, N. J. Zachariah engaged
in farming on the Chickahominy river in Hanover
county but sold his farm to Thomas Bowles in
1784. Military Certificate No. 2514 reads:

"Council Chamber, July 12, 1784.
1 do certify that Zachariah Bowles is entitled to
the proportion cf land allowed a private of the Conti-
nental Artillery for three years service.

Thomas Meriwether. Benj. Harrison.

A warrant for 100 acres issued to James Hawkins,

assignee of Zachariah Bowles, Feb. 18, 1784."

54
Zachariah's wife was named Eliza, and she was
from King William co. He moved to Albemarle
county before i8cx). There is recorded:

"Commonwealth of Virginia to Zachariah Bowles
250 acres in Albemarle county, on the south side
of the Rivanna river and on the branches thereof,
in consideration of a Land Office Treasury War-

112. - THE MrSTORY OP

rant, granted August i, 1803. Signed John Page,
Governor of Virginia/' 55

Among the children cjf Zachariah and Eliza were

JOHN, born in Hanover cornty.

MATTHEW.

JOSHUA BETHEL, born in 1800 in Albemarle co.;
married Grace Shreve, of Cincinnatti, O., by
whom he had 13 children. Grace Shreve vv::s
born in Alexandria, Va.; her aunt was the Ann
Hopkins who was the mother of Johns Hopkins
who gave the great university to Baltimore; she
was of English descent, of the Society of Friends,
from which she was expelled for marrying a slave-
holder. Joshua Bethel went to Louisville alone
when a small boy. He arrassed quite a large
fortune, and became President of the Fr^^nklin In-
surance Co., and the old State Bank of Louisville
for 29 years. He was a very taciturn man and
very prominent in Kentucky. He died in 1873.
The only son of Joshua Bethel living in 1907 was

JAMES W., born 1837 in Kentucky; married Anne
F. Pope, whose great grandfather, William Pope,
was the "Lieutenant of Kentucky,'* and who
was related to the Washingtons through the mar-
riage of Anne Pope, of Pope Creek, Va., to Geo.
Washington's grandfather. James Guthrie, Sec-
retary of the Treasury under Polk, and who could
have had the Presidential nomination at Charles-
ton in i860, is the grand-uncle of Mrs. Anne Pope
Bowles. Colonel James W. Bowles was the last
commander of Morgan's original regiment of Ken-

THE BOWLES FAMILY 113

tucky cavalry. Col. Bowles, his wife, daugh-
ters and granddaughter Frederika Pope Lewis, re-
side at W^ynesvilie, N. C. The daughters are
Grace Shreve, Julia Pope, Mary Caperton, The
son is

JOSHUA BETHEL, one of the greatest of Ken-
tuck> 's horsemen.

BENJAMIN, great-grandson of John 3.d, and son of
Benjamin, married Miss Harris. He was a Bap-
tist preacher who was known and respected in all
the James river counties. He was a very wealthy
man and owned land in Goochland, Hanover and
Henrico counties. On Feb. i, 1785, there is re-
corded a deed: "Benj. Bowles, of Richmond City,
deed from Geo. Harlow and wife to 190 acres ad-
joining David Bowles* land." In 1799 he owned
634 acres in Henrico county and paid taxes on 5
blacks over 16 years, 3 blacks over 12 years, and
5 mules. In 1802 his personal tax was on 5 blacks
over 16 years, 6 horses and 2 chariots. An entry
for taxes on 634 acres appears in 1805. His will
is dated September 29, 1812, and proved Oct. 2,
181 5, and names children Eliza Carter Bowles,
John Ludwell Bowies, Susannah Miller Bowles,
Judah Ann Harris Bowles and Mary Holman Web-
ber. Son-in-law Joseph Webber with John Winn
and Reuben Ford named as executors. 56

JOHN LUDWELL BOWLES, only son of Benjamin,
married Miss Redd, by whom he had six sons and
three daughters. The second son was

WILLIAM BENJAMIN, married Fannie Rebecca Ford,
of Goochland co. Wm. Benjamin, who was a

114 THE HISTORY OF

soldier in the Confederate army, has been dead
many years. His only child, Miss Willie B.
Bowles, resides in Richmond, Va.

NATHAN, son of Benjamin 3d, is possibly the Nathan
of the following grant: ''Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia to Nathan Bowles, two and one-half acres
on the south side of Beaver Dam creek, in consid-
eration of a Land Office Treasury Warrant. Dated
June 10, 1801, and signed by James Monroe, Gov-
ernor of Virginia."

THOMAS, grandson of John 3d, married Sarah, by
v/hom he had at least two sons and a daughter.
Thomas was lost in the woods sometime before
1730. Two of his sons were Thomas and Jesse.
His son

THOMAS 2d married, and his children were William,
Charles, Henry, Thomas Philip, and Jesse and
three daughters.

WILLIAM, the oldest son of Thomas 2d, is believed to
have married Samantha Tyler of Charles City
county. He served in the French and Indian
War and Military Certificate No. 783 reads:

"Feb. Court, Henrico county.
San.uel Meredeth, Gent., Captain in the late
war between Great Britain and France, Certifi-
cate to this Court that William Bowles served as
a soldier in the said war in the Second Virginia
Regiment under the cornmand of Colonel William
Byrd, and that he is entitled to fifty acres of land
under the proclamation of the king of Great Brit-

THE BOWLES FAMILY 115

ain in 1763, and it being proved by the oaths of
two good men that Charles Tyler is heir to the
said William Bowles, who is since deceased, it is
also certified by Samuel Meredith that William
Bowles served in said regiment until duly dis-
charged, the said Charles Tyler makes oath that
this is the first time he has proved his claim or re-
ceived any satisfaction for the same.
1783. William White, Clerk.

Assigned to Samuel Meredith. Charles Tyler.

57

On February i, 1762 there was recorded between

"Isaac Breading of Nevv Kent and William Bowles
of Hanover county, exchange of land in NewJKent
for Henrico land/' $8

According to tradition William had a son who
went "over the mountains," and it may be that
son vor son of one of his brothers) to whom the
follov\ing land grants were made:

"Commonwealth of Virginia to William Bowles,
103 acres in Montgomery county, on Crab Creek,
a branch of the Nca River, in consideration of the
ancient composition of ten shillings, and a certifi-
cate given by the Commissioners for adjusting the
titles to unpatented lands in Washington and
Mchtgomery. Grant dated April 13, 1787, and
signed by Edmund Randolph, Governor. 59

"Commonwealth of Virginia to William Bowles,
109 acres in Montgomery county, on both sides of
Strouble's Creek, a branch of New River, in con-
sideration of a Land Office Treasury Warrant.
Grant dated May i, 1788, and signed by Beverly

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..Randolph, Governor of. Virginia.'* 60

CHARLES, the second son of Thomas 2d, was a sol-
dier in the French and Indian War, and received
the following land grant:

"To the principal surveyor cf any county with-
in the Commonwealth of Virginia: This shall be
your warrant to lay off for Charles Bowles, his
heirs or assigns, the quantity of fifty acres due
the said Charles Bowles for military service per-
formed by him as a soldier in the late war between
Great Britain and France, according to the king's
proclamation of 1763. Grant dated March 25,
1780. S. Carr.

61

HENRY, the third son of 1 homas 2d, was living with
descendants in King William county in 1780. A
son rnoved to Kentucky. Land Warrant No. 11 11
reads: "To the principal surveyor of any county
within the Commonv.ealth of Virginia: : his shall
be your warrant to survey and lay off in one or
more surveys for Henry Bowles, his heirs or as-
signs, fifty acres of land, due unto the said Henry
for military services performed by him as a sol-
dier in Col. Byrd's regiment in the late war be-
tw een Great Britain and France. June 13, 1780.
Certificate for this warrant issued at Chesterfield
Court, May 5, 1780. T. Watklns, Clerk.

62

JESSE, the fifth son of Thom.as 2d, married, but died
without children. There is a deed dated Rich-
mond, Sept. I, 1801, to Jesse from J. Burton, 100
acre.s of land. 63

THE BOWLES FAMILY 117

The fourth son of Thomas 2d was

THOMAS PHILIP (called PHILIP), who married
Sarah Bacon. Thomas Philip lived on the Hano-
ver side of the Chickahominy river, and about
1768 his name appears in an enumeration of the
Chickahominy district with the names of Nathan
iel, Anderson and Harwood Bowles. He was a
man of power and influence in Hanover and upon
the outbreak of the Revolution aided in raising
his cousin Burw ell Bacon's artillery corps, and
\\ as a lieutenant in Colonel Shepherd's Riflemen,
resigning his commission Nov i, 1780. A Thomas
Philip Bowles was sergeant in Harrison's Artillery,
and although also from Hanover, it is believed that
he was a cousin of Lieutenant Thomas Philip.
Thomas Philip remained but a very short time in
the army, as the interests of his property and his
young family demanded his presence at home.
He was called Philip by the family but both in
his father's will and in his own he is called
Thomas. His father's will filed in Henrico county,
names only "sons Th-jmas and Jesse, and Sarah,
Roselenda and Christiana Winn. Executors John
Winn, Jr., and Thomas Bowles. Will dated Nov.
19, 1783; proved Jan. $, 1784." Thomas Philip's
father had bought from Wm. Adkisson 45 acres in
Henrico on Sept. 30, 1766. Thomas 2d also re-
ceived the following land grant in Goochland:

"George the Third to Thomas Bowies and
Thomas Johi.son, 123 acres in Goochland county,
on the north side of James river, in consideration
of fifteen shillings; patent dated July 7, 1763, and

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signed by Francis Fauquier, lieutenant-governor
and commander in-chief of the colony of Virginia.*'
Although his uncle Benjamin had built the mills
on the Chickahominy which came to be kno^vn as
"Bowies' Mills," it is believed that Thomas
Philip acquired possession of them about 1780,
as in a history cf the Eddinfamily they are written
of as "Thomas Bowles' grist mill on the Chicka-
hominy/' and these mills came afterward into the
possession of Lydda'l, the youngest son of Thomas
Philip. Thomas Philip married Sarah Bacon of
Ne-A- Kent county about 1769. Sarah Bacon was
the daughter of Captain Langston Bacon and his
wife Sarah Patterson of New Kent county. Ac-
cording to tradition Sarali Bacon was a direct de-
scendant of General Nathaniel Bacon, the Rebel.
However that may be there are several old charts
which trace the Bacon lineage o\ Sarah. The
Bacon charts of President Lyon G. Tyler of Wil-
liam and Mary College, and of Mr^. Jane Martin
of Columbus, Ga,, are similar, and give the de-
scent as folllows: "Nathaniel Bacon, the father
of Capt. Langston Bacon, was born in Ne .v Kent
in 1706 and died in 1743, Nathaniel was the son
of Captain John Bacon, born in New Kent county
in 1676, who married (i) Sarah Langston; (2)Su-
sannah Parke. Captain John was the son of the
emigrant Edmund Bacon and his wife Ann Lyddall .
Ann Lyddall was a second cousin of Nathaniel
Bacon the Rebel, and a descendant of the brother
of Lord Nicholas Bacon, President of the Council.
Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., left no children, and his
nephew, Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., the Rebel, left no

THE BOWLES FAMILY 119

sons* Edmund Bacon, his cousin, had only one
son, John. John had two wives. By his first
wife he had two sons, and by his second wife he
had three sons and three daughters. William, a
son of Edmund the emigrant, had two sons, Lud-
well and Burwell." It is set forth in this chart
that Sarah Bacon, daughter of Captain Langston
Bacon and Sarah Patterson of New Kent county,
married Philip Bowles of Hanover county, and
that the brothers and sisters of Sarah were:

Harwood;

Ann Bacon, who married Captain Apperson;

Lucy Bacon, who married Mr. Williamson;

William Bacon;

Edmund (or Edward' Bacon;

Elizabeth Bacon, who married John Moseby;

Lyddall Bacon, who married U) A. Apperson,
(2) Lucy Crump.

Another genealogical tree, examined and endorsed
by the Richmond Times-Despatch, states that
"Lyddall Bacon was the son of Nathaniel Bacon,
Jr., the Rebel. It was Nathaniel Bacon, the uncle
of Nathaniel the Rebel, vv ho had no children.
Sarah Bacon was the daughter of Edmund Bacon,
son of John Bacon, son of Nathaniel Bacon the
Rebel."

The similar names are confusing and often lead to
error. For instance a Sarah Bacon of the third
gener.ition married Captain Samuel Bugg; a Sarah
Bacon of the fourth generation was a sister of
Nathaniel and Izzard Bacon. The father of Ann
Lyddall was Captain (called General) George

120 THE HISTORY OF

Lyddall, who commanded colonial troops in an ex-
pedition against the Indians, and who was an offi-
cer in Bacon's army in the Rebellion. The Bacon
family seems to move westward .vith the Bowles
name. The two families were granted land patents
in the same counties about the sam.e time, served
in the same military organizations, etc. The two
families were neighbors in New Kent, Hanover
and Henrico ccunties, and in 1799 Izzard Bacon
paid taxes on "8 blacks over 16 years, i black
over 12 years, and 200 acres of staff-broken and
partly-worn soil,'* and Susan Ann Bacon paid
taxes on "40 acres of staff-broken and partly-worn
soil." There was a connection between the
Hanover Bowleses and the Lewis family of Glou-
cester county before the Revolution. One of
1 homas Philip's sisters married a iWr. Lewis and
Robert Bowles was a member of Captain John
Lewis' Company in the Dunmore war in 1774.
The Virginia and Maryland Bowles families there-
fore touch through the Lewis family, for Eleanor
Bowles of Maryland had married Col. Warner
Lewis of Gloucester. Thomas Philip died about
1800. His wife Sarah Bacon went to Missouri
with her son John and died in 1833. The children
of Thomas Philip and Sarah Bacon were:

William, b. 1772.

John, b. 1774.

Philip.

Thomas, b. 1777.

Lyddall, b. April 15, 1783.

Sally, drowned in young womanhood.

Polly, married Mr. Langdon of Goochland co.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 121

The oldest son of Thomas Philip and Sarah was
WILLIAM, who '♦vas born in 1772; married Valencia
Branch, daughter of Washington Branch of Hano-
ver and Miss Britton of Chesterfield. He was
married May 24, 1802. He paid taxes in Henrico
county in 1802 on "two blacks over 16 years, and
two horses." In 1804 he and Valencia moved to
Mercer county, Ky. On Nov. 3, i8c6, he sold to
his brother Lyddall 320 acres in Henrico county
for $2,000.00, half of tract devised to them jointly
by their father Thomas Philip. In Nov., 1812,
William and Valencia transferred to Lyddall re-
maining portion of tract devised to them by their
father. William died in Covington, Tenn., in
1826; Valencia near Randolph, Tenn., in 1842.

Their children were:
Mary,
Lucinda,
Virginia,
Lyddall,

William, b. Aug. 18, i8ii; d. Dec. 30, 1904.
Maria.
Sarah,
Ldvs in,

Zebulon Pike, b. Jan. 7, 1821 ; d. Aug. 22, 1870.
Philip, weni to Arkansas.
Valencia.

The fifth child of William and Valencia was
WILLIAM, who married Elizabeth Sarah Pemberton
Montague of Barren county, Ky., on May 17, 1837.
She was b-rn Dec. 17, 1819, the daughter of
Thomas Clement Montague and Eleanor Day.
Thomas Clement was the son of Clement Montague
and Ann Bart'ett, the daughter of Vv^iiliam Bart-
lett of Va. Elizabeth died Nov. 28, 1847, having

122 THE HISTORY OF

borne three children:

Robert Smither, b. April i, 1838.

Ellen, b. Aug. 16, 1839; died July 5, 1844.

William, Jr., b. Feb. 29, 1844.
William married secondly Caroline Haskell of
Jackson, Tenn. She was bom in 1826, and died
May 24, 1862, having borne two children: Nannie
Valencia and Caroline, b. and d. 1862. Nannie
Valencia was born Sept. 27, 1856; married Allie
Duvall by whom she had two children, Allie and
Caroline Haskell. Allie, their father, is dead.
William came to Memphis from Randolph, Tenn.,
in 1844 and entered the grocery and ccmmission
firm of Green, Bowles & Smither. In 1852 he
and his brother Zebulon Pike formed the cotton
buying firm of Z* B. Bowles. After the death of
Zebulon Pike the firm name was changed to Wm.
Bowles & Sons., the firm consisting of William
and his sons Robert and William, Jr. William
aided in the capture of the cruel bandit John A.
Murrell and unaided guarded that desperate outlaw
during the night following his capture. He was a
charter and honorary member of the Memphis
Cotton Exchange, and at the time of his death on
Dec. 30, 1904, was probably the oldest cotton
buyer in the United States. He was an honorary
member of the Tennessee Club and Jockey Club,
and a member of Grace Episcopal Church. He
was very prominent in business and social circles.
The occasion of his 93d birthday was made a nota-
ble event by its celebration by the Cotton Ex-
change. Congratulatory telegrams were received
from the New York and New Orleans Exchanges,

TttE BOWLE8 FAMILY 123

and in the presence of the assembled membefs of
the Memphis Exchange he was presented by Mr.
Morrow with a handsome memorial. He died on
Dec. 30, 1904. Born near Glasgow, Barren co.,
Ky., on Aug. 18, 181 1, he moved to Covington,
Tenn., in April, 1826; in 1832 he went to Ran-
dolph, and in 1844 to Memphis. He is buried in
Elmwood Cemetery. His eldest son
ROBERT SMITHER, who was born at Randolph,
Tenn., April i, 1838, married June 6, 1866, Mary
Glovenia Eppes, who was born in Holly Springs,
Miss., Ncv. 2$, 1840, and died in Memphis Sept.
20, 1903. He served in Company B, Bluff City
Grays, 154th Tenn. Volunteers, and was wounded
twice at Shiloh, and was paroled at Memphis in
April, 1865. Resides in Memphis and is in the
cotton business with his brother Williarn under
the firm name of Wm. Bowles & Sons. Robert
Smither is a promii^ent business man. His chil-
dren were;

Annie Taylor, b. June 7, 1868; d, Nov. 6, 1875.
William Pike, b. Mar. 16, 1871.
Robert Smither, Jr., b. Oct. 6, 1875.
Male Eleanor, b. Oct. 18, 1877.
Heber Valerie, b. Oct. i, 1880.
Nannie Valencia, b. Oct. i, 1880.

WILLIAM PIKE was born in New Orleans. He

resides in Memphis, and is with the cotton firm of

Lacy Bros.& Kimball.

ROBERT SMiTHER, JR., vvas born in Memphis,

and resides there, where he is with the cotton firm

of Dockery & D ^nelson.

NANNIE VALENCIA married Edgar P. Harris

April 12, 1904. '; heir daughter Nannie Glovenia,

124 THE HISTORY OF

was born Jan. 21, 1905, in Memphis.

WILLIAM BOWLES, JR., was bom in Randolph,

Tenn.; married Kate Potter in Memphis Nov. 17,

1871. Served in Company B, Bluff City Grays,

154th Tenn. Volunteers; was wounded, and later

transferred to Forrest's Cavalry, and was paroled

in Memphis in 1865. Resides in Memphis and is

in the cotton firm of Wm. Bowles & Sons. The

children of William and Kate were:

Mollie, b. Jan. 17, 1873; d- Aug. 6, 1874.
Sara, b. Oct. 29, 1875; married (i) Mr. Lud-

den of New York; (2) Alex. Smith, Prof.

of Chemistry in University in Chicago,

where Sara now lives.
Potter, b. Jan. 31, 1885.

The ninth child of William and Valencia
Branch was
ZEBULON PIKE, who was born in Barren county,
Ky., near Glasgow, married Elvira Woodbury
Montague, Feb. 26, 1845, iri Randolph, Tenn.
Zebulon died Aug. 22, 1870, and Elvira, who was
born in Rutherford county, Tenn., died in Mem-
phis Jan. 7, 1888. He came to Memphis and in
1852 he formed, with his brother William, the firm
of Z. P. Bowles, which existed until 1866, when
the firm of Wm. Bowles & Sons was formed. He
was a man of honor and fine business ability. The
children of Zebulon and Elvira were:

Ellen, b. March 10, 1847.
Alice, b. May 24, 1850; d. July 16, 1851.
Charles, b. July 25, 1852; d. Dec. 20, 1855.
Minnie, b. Oct. 26, 1856.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 125

Willie, b. June 14, 1861; d. Sept. 15, 1862.

ELLEN married July 25, 1866, Robert Douglass Ram-
bant, of Petersburg, Va. He was born in Peters-
burg, Va., July 2, 1839, and died in Memphis in
1901. Ellen died in Memphis 1901. Their children
were Rosa, b. April 8, 1868; Maude Hammond, b,
April 21, 1870; Marie Elise, b. March 21, 1872.

ROSA, b. April 8, 1868; married John Ellett,
of Memphis, Tenn., January 14, 1891, and
has four children: John, Ellen Douglass,
Katharine and Dorothy.

MAUDE HAMMOND married William C.
Willis of Clarksville, Tenn., Jauuary 20,
1892, and has four children: Sarah Ellen.
Dora Newell, Robert Rambant and Wm. C.

MARIE ELISE married Charles B. Galloway
of Memphis, Tenn., in June 1891, and had
one child: Charles B. Galloway, Jr. Marie
Elise died Oct. 12, 1898.

MINNIE married in Memphis September 19, 1876,
William Wilson James, who was born May 7, 1850.
They reside in Memphis, where Mr. James is of
the firm of J^^mes Grocery Co. Their children
are:

Elva Balfour, b. Mar. 21, 1878; d.Mar. 31, 1878.

William Wilson, b. June 20, 1879.

Alice May, b. Nov. 26, 1882,

Minnie Bowles, b. Mar. 31, 1889.
ALICE MAY married Noland Fontaine. They

have one son. 64

126 THE HISTORY OF

The second son of Thomas Philip and
Sarah Bacon was

JOHN, who married Winnie Brittain in Henrico coun-
ty, Va., Feb. lo, 1812, and owned a farm on the
Chickahominy river which he sold in 1816 to his
**cousin Thomas Bowies, son of Benjamin.*' It
is recorded that ''John Bt.wles loaned Josiah
Mosby 35 pounds sterling, with other loans. May
27, 1812.*' John moved to Missouri about 1821
taking his mother with him. His mother, Sarah
Bacon, died in 1833. Among the children of John
were five sons: Philip, John, Edward, Benjamin
and Thon^as. It is believed all of these children
were born in Virginia, and some did not accom-
pany their father to Missouri.

PHILIP, son of John, married, and he and his wife
died about 1870, leaving a family. A daughter,
Mary, married Mr. McCarty and lives in Cooper
county. Mo. A daughter Sallie married Mr. Muir.
A son of John was named Charles.

JOHN, son of John, married Susan Stockstall, sister
of the wives of Ed v ard and Thomas. John moved
from Missouri to Texas about 1882, where Juhn
and his wife died. They had four boys and three
girls. The sons were Benjamin, John, Joseph
and another; the girls were Mary, Melvina and
Nancy. Mary married Silas Skeins; Melvina,
, who was subject to epileptic fits, is dead; Nancy
married Moses Shiner. Benjamin served in the
Confederate army under Lieut. Alonzo Calvin
Bowles, throughout the campaigns of Gen. Price.

EDWARD, son of John, married Miss Stockstall, sister
to Susan and Huldah. They both died about 1900.

THE BOWLtS FAMILY 127

Their two sons were James and Lafayette. James
is about 70 years of age, unmarried, and lives in
South Greenfield, Mo. He remained with his
father and mother until they died. He is a very
good and wise man. Lafayette lives in Cooper
county. Mo.
BENJAMIN, son of John, married Marietta Priddy of
Henrico county, Va., about 1839. She was born
in 1816 and is still living in Colorado with her son
John Bacon Bowles. Benjamin came to Missouri
with John P. VV. Bowies in 1839, and settled in
Dade county. Their four children were: Joseph
Henry, John Bacon, Austin and Ann.
JOSEPH HENRY, son of Benjamin and Marietta,
married Lavilette Leiper and have two living chil-
dren, Julian and Oscar. Julian is one of the largest
stockraisers in Wyoming; he h;is married recently
and lives at Medicine Bow, Wyo. Oscar married
about 1902 Nora Evans, by whom he has one little
girl.

JOHN BACON married Birdie Barry. He is
now living near Hudson, Col. He was born about
1852. He has four daughters living, three of them
are OUie, Lida and Dottie. Ollie married Joseph
dinger.

AUSTIN married Alice Mclnturff, and lives near
Del Norte, Col. Their five children are Oda,
Richard, Mclnturff, Tina and Ethel. Oda married
Victor Stevenson, and has one child. Richard is
married. Mclnturff is going to school, and Ethel
and Tina are teachers.

ANN, only daughter of Benjamin and Marietta,
married Jacob Jones, and has a large family living

128 THE HISTORY OF

near South Greenfield, Mo.
THOMAS, son of John and Winnie, married Huldah
Stockstall, sister to Susan, by whom he had nine
children: William, Calvin^ Alexander, Decatur,
Patty, Betty, Louise, Eliza and another daughter.
WILLIAM, born about 1837, married Elizabeth.
He lives at Miller, Mo. Their children were Isaac,
who died about 1900; Lawrence, who is married
and living somewhere near Miller; and three girls.
CALVIN married and lives at Miller. The child-
ren were Thomas, Oscar, Delbert and four daugh-
ters. Thomas married Jane Forshea; he died about
1892, leaving a large family in Missouri. Oscar
and Delbert live near Miller. The eldest daughter
married Frank Gamble, the second daughter mar-
ried Jack Gamble, brother to Frank; the third mar-
ried Wm. Henshaw; the fourth married John Hen-
shaw, brother to William.

ALEXANDER married Narcisis Steeley. He died
about 18S7, survived by seven sons andonedaugh-
ter. The sons were William, John, Price, Clint,
Hardin, Watson, Loney. William married Tracy
Bird, and lives near South Greenfield, Mo. Priceis
married and lives at Ash Grove, Mo. Watson
married Miss Steeley, his cousin. Clint is un-
married. Hardin married Luvenia, daughter of
John P. W. Bowles, and they have two boys and
two girls: Alma, twins Elva and Elvis and 'd baby
born in 1906; they live near Prowers, Gol. John
married Lulu Carrico and lives near South Green-
field, Mo. Alexander's daughter married Bose
Tucker and lives in Prowers, Col.
DECATUR died from consumption about 1882.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 129

PATTY married James Nixon, and died about 1892
leaving a large family now living in southwestern
Missouri.

BETTY married John McGehee, whose brother,
Rev. James McGehee, was the great Methodist
preacher. Betty's daughter Lena lives near
Round Grove, Mo.

LOUISE marrried John Sandford, son of John P.
W. Bowles. Her children's names will be found
in the lineage of John Sandford Bowles.
ELIZA married Rev. William Dotrey, a Methodist
preacher. She had a large family.
The fourth daughter of Thomas married Watsun
Bennett, a very wealthy man of Mount VeriiOn,
Mo, Her sons are great horsemen, and recently
sold a horbe for $2u,ooo.

The descendants of John Bowles and Winnie Brit-
tain are settled in all the Western states, and arealmost
exclusively farmers, stockbreeders or ministers. As
the family for centuiies, both in England and Virginia,
have been successful in these avocations, it seems but
an instance of hereditary instinct for them to follow
these pursuits in the great West. John, the founder
of the family in Missouri, was a Baptist minister.

The third son of Thomas Philip and
Sarah Bacon was
PHILIP, who died unmarried when about 23 years
of age.

The fourth son of Thomas Philip and
Sarah Bacon was

I30 THE HISTORY OF

THOMAS, who niarried (i) Rebecca Williamson, of
Henricocounty, Va., daughter of John Williamson;
(2) Sallie Rawlings, daughter of Colonel Rawlings
of Spottsylvania county. The marriage to Re-
becca Williamson occurred Sept. 21, 1803, ^^ith
John Williamson on bond. He married Sallie
Rawlings on Jan. 25, 1825, his wife Rebecca hav-
ing died in 1821. Thomas was born near Bowles'
Mills, on the Hanover side of the Chickahominy
river, on November 2, 1781. In 1805 "Thomas
Bowles paid taxes on 5 blacks over 16 years, i
black over 12 years, 7 horses and one tract 103
acres, one tract 142 1-2 acres." A record states
"Thomas Bowles, of Hanover county, shall take
Simon Jones, a free negro, and teach him how to
farm. Bond filed for same." Thomas and Ben-
jamin Bowles were among those contributing "3
days labor to raising Salem Church," which was
built in 1809. In 1839 he moved to Missouri with
his wife and all the children by his last marriage.
He died in Missouri a few years after settling. His
wife Sallie survived him but a few years. His
son Lyddall had settled in Missouri about 1835,
returned to Virginia and accompanied his father
out in 1839. Lyddall, who was of a bold and
restless character, died about 1848. The children
of Thomas Bowles by Rebecca Williamson were:

John Price Williamson, b. April 24, 1814.

Lyddall.

Benjarriin.

Maria.

Mary Ann.

The children of Thomas

THE BOWLES FAMILY 131

by Saltie Rawlings were:
James.

Luvenia, m. Mr. Ward; living in Kansas.
Rebecca.

JOHN PRICE WILLIAMSON married Louise Priddy,
of Henrico county, Va., in 1835, ^rid in 1839 he
moved to Missouri. He was one of those daantless
pioneers who delighted in the conflict with the
wilderness, and who have done so much to spread
the fame of Missouri as a producer of bold types
of Americans. After the death of his wife Louise
he married Melvina Carter, daughter of Captain
Carter of Richmond, Va., in 1859. He lived for
many years in Dade county. His children by
Louise Priddy were:

Alonzo Calvin, b. Dec. 8, 1836, in Virginia.

Rebecca Ann, b. in Virginia.

John Sandford, b. 1843, ^^ Missouri.

Edward Bruce, b. 1847.

Maria Louise, b. 1850.

Jasper Newton, b. 1854.
The children of John Price Williamson by Melvina
Carter were

Margaret Eleanor, b. 1865.

Cynthia Ann, b. July 4, 1866.

Henry Lee, b. Dec. 15, 1869.

James Alison, b. April 20, 1873.

Luvenia Jane, b. Sept. 27, 1874.
Another child dead.

ALONZO CALVIN BOWLES, when less than four
years old, accompanied his parents to Missouri.

132 THE HISTORY OF

When the Civil War began he entered the Con-
federate army, and becarr:e a lieutenant under
General Price, and with the unconquerable spirit
which distinguishes his race he still honors the
cause for which he so desperately fought. After
the war he went to Texas, where he has since
lived, and is a stockraiser and farmer near Waco.
His wife Christenia was born Nov. 15, 1843.
Their children are:

OSCAR, b. June 24, 1866; stockraiser and
farmer, at Lanham, Texas.

MRS. EARL FINLEY, b. July 7, 1870; lives
in Waco, Texas.

THURSTON, b. Aug. 31, 1872; in livery
business in Waco, Texas.

CLARA MAY, b. Aug. 11, 1879. Teacher.

ROY and LOY (twins) b. March 10, 1886.

JOHN SANDFORD married Louise, daughter of Alex-
ander Bowles* John Sandford is a farmer and
stockraiser at FvOnnd Grove, Mo. Their children
are: Lena, who married Roscoe Wilkes and lives
at Nedderland, Col.; Pearl, who married Loney
Bowies, son of Alexander; Vida lives with her
father; Lawson, who lives at Carthage, Mo., mar-
ried Mary Gunnells, by whom he has four child-
ren; William is unmarried and lives in Denver,
Col., where he is employed by the Bowles-Buffe
Land Company.

EDWARD BRUCE is engaged in mining, farming and
stockraising at Harris, Col.

MARIA LOUISE married Mr. King and lives at lone,
Oregon. ^

THE BOWLES FAMILY 133

JASPER NEWTON was a stockraiser and farmer near
Plattville, Col., and is now President of the
Bowles-Buffe Land Company.

MARGARET ELEANOR married Mr. Cochran and
liv'es at Lamar, CoL

CYNTHIA ANN married Mr. Carricoand livesat Bliss,
Idaho.

HENRY LEE BOWLES lives in Denver, where he
was engaged in real estate, mining, and nursery
growing. He is married, and is now Secretary of
the Bowles-Buffe Land Co. Henry Lee is deeply
interested in the genealogy of the family, and has
furnished much information regarding the descend-
ants of John and John Price Williamson Bowles.

JAMES ALISON is a stockraiser and farmer at Bliss,
Idaho, lie is married and has children: Howard,
b. Jan. 8, 1899; Alta, b. June 23, 1901; Elva, b.
Jan. 15, 1903. 65

1 he fifth sun of Thomas Philip and
Sarah Bacon was

LYDDALL, who was born in the Chickahominy home-
stead on the Hanover side of the river, April 15,
1783. He married (i) Elizabeth Smith, daughter
of Captain Obadiah Smith of Henrico county, and
Betsy Burton; (2) Sally Waller hrice, daughter
of Richard Price of Kentucky, who was killed at
the battle of Raisin in the war of 1812. Elizabeth
Smith was born Jan. 4, 1783; married Lyddall
Dec. 14, 1805; and died Feb. 19, 1821. Obadiah,
the father of Elizabeth, was the son of Isaac Smith
of Henrico county, and the father of Betsy Burton

lU THE HISTORY OF

was Captain William Burton. Obadiah was En-
sign in the Fifth Virginia Regiment in February,
1777; Lieutenant December 10, 1777; transferred
to Third Virginia Regiment September 14, 1778;
resigned April 25, 1779. Sally Waller Price was
born March 18, 1796; married Lyddall March 17,
1824; died July 9, 1835. Although the youngest
son Lyddall seems to have been possessed of much
property, for besides his estate in Hanover county
upon which he employed 12 blacks he owned
tracts in Henrico county, one tract of 240 acres
he bought from James Edwards in Oct. 1806, and
on June 2, i8c6, he bought from his brother Wil-
liam half of William's share of the tract left to
them jointly by their father, and in November,
1812, he bought the remainder of William's
share. In 1809 he paid taxes on 337 acres in Hen-
rico county. The following was recorded March
9, 1809: "Mary Royall, late Mary Smith, Lyddall
Bowles and Elizabeth his wife, (late Smith), and
Nancy Smith, aunts of Obadiah Smith, late of
Henrico, deed to Martin and Jacob Smith." Mary
Ro/all, now King, Lyddall and wife and Nancy
Smith made corrected deed of same property. In
1821 Lyddall was elected ruling elder of the Han-
over Baptist Church, He died October 24, 1835,
and his will probated Nov. 24. It is recorded on
"Dec. 2, 1835. $23,600

Peter W. Grubbs, of Richmond, and William B.
Bowles of Hanover county, only qualified execu-
tors of Lyddall Boules, deceased, late of Henrico
county, to Robert Priddy, whereas Lyddall Bowles
by his last will and testament admitted to record

THE BOWLES FAMILY 135

in Henrico Court, subjects his whole estate, both
real and personal, to payment of his debts, and
leaves it discretionary with his executors as to
what part thereof shall be sold fcr that purpose:
Mills known as Mosby's Mills (counties of Henrico
and Hanover dividing line) on Chickahominy
Swamp, with 10 acres of land on south side pond
in Henrico and 5 acres on north side pond in Han-
over county, also land covered by water in said
pond.'*

"July II, 1836. $888.cx)

Executors of Lyddall Bowles to Benjamin Slocum,
tract of 103 acres on R. F. & P. R'y; tj 12 acres
on Horsepen Branch."

*'July 18, 1836. $440.00

Same to Robert Eliett, 106 3-4 acres."

"Oct. 22, 1836. $1154.25

Same to James R. Hawkins 243 acres on Horsepen
Branch (called Gregory), plat of same on record
with this deed."

"Jan. 12, 1838. $1890.00

Same tu Wm. King and James Ryall, two tracts
on both sides of Chickahominy Sw::mp in Henrico
and Hanover, and on which is situated Bowies'
Mills, 178 acres in Hanov9r mill-house dam, etc.,
4 acres in Henrico."

"June 18, 1838. $1192.00

"Same to George Drewry 447 acres; same tract
said Lyddall Bowies resided at period of his death,
on R. F. &. P. R'y."

"Nov. 25, 1843 $448.00

Same to Jacob B. Kesser et als 64 acres on west
side of R. F. & P. R'y about 11 n iles from Rich-

136 THE HISTORY OF

mond.*'

"Feb. 5, 1846. $50.00

Same to Jacob Kearsey i 1-2 acres on Brook Turn-
pike 3 miles from courthouse.'*
It is worthy of note that the Grubbs name is also
in the lineage of John Bowles of Goochland, and
Peter Grubbs gave a deed for 92 acres purchased
by Lyddall in 1806, and in 1814 John Bowles of
Goochland paid taxes on a 92 acre tract in Hen-
rico. The children of Lyddall Bowles and Eliza-
beth Smith were:

Sarah Adeline, b. Oct. 19, 1806; d. April 1 5, 1878.

Philip, b. May i, 1808; d. aged 13 days.

Martin Smith, b. Nov. 7, 1809; d. June 17, 1893.

William Bacon, b.June22, 1811; d. Oct. 24, 1838.

Lyddall, Jr., b. Aug. 16, 1815;

Elizabeth Ann, b. April 8, 1817; d. Mar. 29, 1830.

Maria L., b. Dec. 31, 1820; d. aged 5 weeks.
Sally W. Price, Lyddall's second wife, was the grand-
daughter of Rev. Wm. E. Waller of Spottsylvania
county. Her parents settled in Woodford county, Ky.,
«vhere Sally W. Price was born. The children of Lyd-
dall by Sally were:

Mary Waller, b. Jan. 30, 1825; d.Aug. 17,1900.

Richard Price, b. April 23, 1827; d. Sept. 1839.

Eliza Price, b. Sept. 13, 1832;

Sally Price, b. June, 1835; ^- Nov. 22, 1835.

The second son of Lyddall and Elizabeth was
MARTIN SMITH, who married Lucy Cross of Hanover
county. He was much interested in religious
rriatters and took a prominent part in all the Bap-
tist revivals and meetings. He has been described

THE BOWLHS FAMILY 137

as a **good, old-time shouting Baptist," and his en-
thusiasm was such that he travelled all over the
State with the Baptist ministers. His wealth
and kindly character permitted him to do much
practical good, and he was well known and highly
esteemed. It is related of him that he never had
to do bnt one day's manual work in his life, o.nd
that was caused when, with some boy companions,
he had partaken of too much cider, and his father,
as a punishment, made him work a iong day in
hauling wood. It is said that he never afterwards
drank spirituous liquors. The children of Martin
Smith and Lucy Cross were:

William Thomas, b. Nov. 22, i833;d. Dec.23,.1899
Sarah Adeline, b. Mar. 5, 1837; d. Sept. 29, 1886.
Lyddall, b. Aug. 20, 1838; d. June 21, 1906.
Samuella Lavinia, b. Sept. i, 1847.

WiLLlAM THOMAS married Nov. i6, 1859, hlla Eliza-
beth Glazebrook, daughter of Robert Snead Glaze-
brook and Susan Frazier. Susan was the daughter
of John Frazier of Spottsylvania and Sarah Branch
of Chesterfield CO. Robert Snead was the son of
John Glazebrook and Judith Blackwell,^ whose
brothers John and David Blackwell were Revolu-
tionary soldiers, and her cousins were Captain
Thomas Blackwell and Lieutenant Joseph Black-.

!; . well and Samuel Blackwell of the Virginia troops.
William Thomas was a brick manufacturer and

•" contractor of Richmond, Va., and was very suc-
cessful. He was a man of splendid physical pro-

' ' portions, being 6 feet, 3 ins. in height and weigh-

138 THE HISTORY OF

ing 240 lbs. He was a soldier of the Confederacy,
serving in the Tenth. Va. Cavalry, Co. I, vvith
Captain Hopkins, and later Captain iVlcDowell,
Col, Lucien Davis Williams commanding. The
ehildrenof William Thomas and EllaElizabethwere; .
ROSA ELLA, b. Oct. 23, 1862; mar. Clarence

Gordon Wright, Feb. 16, 1886.
EFFIE ROBERT, b. Feb. i, 1867; mar. Henry
Spiller Kelley, December 28, 1892. Their
daughter Elizabeth Marlborough Kelley was
born Oct. 6, 1S95. It is due to the deep in-
terest of Effie Robert in her ancestry that this
History of the Bowles Family was compiled.
THOMAS SMITH, b. Feb. 14, 1868; mar. Effie

Lewis, nf Roanoke, Jun. 2, 1906*
BEULAH (DOLLY), b. Feb. 10, 1872; raar. Wil-
liam Garlick Mahone, of King William county,
Nov. 22, 1893. Their son Thomas William
was born Jan. , 1897.

The oldest daughter of Martin Smith
and Lucy Cross was
SARAH ADELINE, who married. May 7, 1857, Wil-
liam R, Thomas, of Hanover county^ near Ash-
land. Their children v\ere:
Carrah B. Thomas.

Emma A. Thomas; d. June 6, 1877, aged 15 years.
A. Wilton Thomas, d. June 10, 1869, aged 2 years.
Robert Wythe Thomas, d. Feb. 14, 1891, aged

20 years.
Rubsell A.Thomas, d. Dec. 30, 1873, agedjmos. 4.

John G. Thomas, mar. Louise Adelaide Tiller
April 15, 1896. His children are Sarah

THE BOWLES FAMILY 139

IsabeTfe, aged 9 years; Margaret Ethel, aged
6 years; Annie Maud, aged 2 years.
Hattie Adeline, mar. Bernard S. Hall April 10,
1901. Her children are Robert Garnet,
aged 5 years; Mattie Virginia, aged i 1-2
years.

The third child of Martin Smith

and Lucy Cross was

LYDDALL, who married Martha Francis Walker Mar,

22, 1866. Martha F. was the daughter of John

Walker, and died March 29, 1893. Their children

were:

NANNIE LILLIAN, b. Dec. 20, 1866; mar. Jos-
eph W. Terrell Dec. 20, 1893, i heir child-
ren are Fannie Emn iline, b. Nov. 10, 1895;
Charles Lyddall, b. Jan. 28, 1897: Martha
Washingt n, b. Aug. 26, 1898; Elma May
b. April 8, 1901; Ruth Elizabeth, b. Feb.

RICHARD AUBREY, b. Dec. 18, 1868; mar.
Cora Myrtle Francis, Dec. 19, 1899. Rich-
ard A. died Jnly 25, 1902.

LYDDALL, b. Dec. 15, 1870; d. Oct. 13, 1892.

HATTIE MAY, b. Sept. 19, 1872; d. Sept. 29,
1874.

JOHN MARTIN, b. Aug. 25, 1874; mar. Dec.
23i 1897, Clara Bell Brown; d. March 29.
1907. His children are William Lyddall, b.
Sept. 3, 1899; John Edward, b. Nov. 9,
1900; Richard Aubrey, b. Oct 25, 1902.

JAMES HENRY, b. May 22, 1877; mar. Maggie
Raymond Davis Feb. 7, 1906.

140 THE HISTORY OF

EMMA LUCY, b. Nov. lo, 1879; mar. Robert
Cross Dec. 19, 1900. Their children are
Everett Waverly. b. Oct. 17, 1901; Wylie
Eggleston, b. Aug. 18, 1906.

The fourth child of Martin Smith
and Lucy Cress .vas
SAMUELLA LAVINIA, whomarriedJohn William Val-
entine, son of Mann Valentine and Ann Barlow,
Nov. 10, 1884. Their son Ernest Warriner was
born Jan. 8, 1891.

The Virginia Pedigree is continued on
Page 220.

Ube ^ar^lanb Branch.

The Maryland family is distinguished among the
branches of the Bowles family by the dfstinct line of
descent from the English progenitor.

The direct ancestor of the Maryland family was

T. BOWLES, the English medallist and engraver of
London, of whom Walpole said : "his work was the
fr test to survive the eighteenth century," was born
about 1712, or as some biographies state, in 1702. He
had at least two sons,

CARRINGTON BOWLES, the well-known print
seller of St. PauPs, who was so often mentioned in
the literature of the eighteenth century. His shop in
St. Paul's Churchvard was the most famous of its

142 THE HISTORY OF

kind, and his prints were seen in all the centres of re-
finement in the kingdom. His brother

THOMAS BOWLES emigrated to America in 1758
and settled in Frederick county, Maryland. He
possessed an education acquired inthe best English
schools and became a schoolmaster. Having a
keen business mind he acquired wealth sufficient
to purchase an extensive plantation. He was
Clerk of the County and was held in the highest
esteem by his neighbors. Kis wife was named
Eleanor; she died March 30, 1813. Thomas died
August I, 1800. The children of Thomas and
Eleanor were William Augustus, Thomas, John,
Catharine, Mary Neil, Samuel, Susanna, Isaac,
F-van, James, Anne Matilda, Juliet.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, born October 22, 1763; died
December 23, 1805, in Morro Castle, Havana.
General in the British Army, Chief of the Creek
and Cherokee Nations. His life will be found
printed immediately after this pedigree.

THOMAS, born March 29, 1765.

JOHN, born October 10, 1766; died February 25, 1834;
married February 9, 1795, to Jane. Their children
were Thomas Carrington; Lucretia, b. July 12,
1798; Catharine, b. July 17, i8cxd; Mary, b. June
24, 1801; Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1803; John Samuel,
b. March 13, 1809; married Anna Charles. De-
scendants given presently.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 143

CATHARINE, b. June 3, 1769.
MARY NEIL, b. March 22, 1771.
SAMUEL, b. April 15, 1773.
SUSANNA, b. June 3, 1775.
ISAAC, b. April i, 1777.
EVAN, b. December 3, 1778.
JAMES, b. December 28, 1780.
ANNA MATILDA, b. May 20, 1783.
JULIET, b. October 9, 1784.

The oldest son of John and Jane was

THOMAS CARRINGTON, b. Nov. 28, 1795, d. April
8, 1857, in Clayton Co., Iowa; mar. Mar. 28,
1819, tc Jane Rogers, b. April 17, 1798, in Dau-
phin Co., Penn., d. April 18, 1884, in Clayton
Co., Iowa. Their children were

Eleanor Jane, b. Feb. i, 1820, in Washington
Co., Md., mar. Feb. 14, 1859, in Cla>ton Co.,
Iowa, to Seldon Candee; no issue.

The second child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was

John Carrington, b. Nov. 16, 1821, in Wash-
ington Co., Md. Died in infancv.i*

144 THE HISTORY Oh

The third child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was
Lucretia Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1823, in Holmes
Co., Ohio; mar. Aug. 23, 1858. In Clayton Co.,
Iowa, to Joshua Reese. Their children were
Jennie M., unmarried in 1904, and Ellsworth,
who is dead.

The fourth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was
Elizabeth Rogers, b. Jan. i, 1826, in Holmes
Co., Ohio; mar. Nov, 5, 1846, in same county,
to Stephen Thompson.

The fifth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was
Theodore George Crawford, of whom presently.

The sixth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was
James Rogers, of whom presently.

The seventh child of Thomas Carringtcn and
Jane Rogers was
Nathan Drake, b. May 3, 1833, in Holmes Co.,
Ohio; mar. Oct. 1856, in Clayton Co., Iowa,
to Bertha. No issue. Both dead.

The eighth child of Thomas Carrington and

Jane Rogers was

DAVID DRAKE, b. May 3, 1833, in Holmes

Co., Ohio; married Jan. 5, 1859, in Clayton

County, Iowa, to Nancy; lives retired in Rock-

THE BOWLES FAMILY 145

well, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Children :
Jane Ellen, born December 6, 1859. Pro-
prietor of Worr.an's Noonday Club Res-
taurant, St. Louis, Missouri.
Thomas.
William.
Cameron.
Lucretia.
Laura.

Rilla, who married Chester Sullivan.
Verne.

The ninth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was

REV. ORLYN DAVIDSON, D. D., born June
14, 1836, in Holmes County, Ohio; married
September 10, 1863, ^^ Clayton County, Iowa,
to Rachel. He was a Methodist minister in
Iowa, where he resided from early childhood.
He died March 13, 1879. ^^^^ children v. ere :
MAY, b. March 12, 1866; married A. A,
Reed, Superintendent 0; Schools at Su-
perior, Neb.; children: ^.errill Vergil, b.
Feb. 23, 1894, Carolyn, b. July 25, 1899.
LILLIAN, b. Feb. 28, 1873; niar. Mr. An-
derson in 1903; children: Frank, Nellie,
died in infancy.

The tenth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane Rogers was
May Matilda, b. July 28, 1840, in Holmes Co.,
Ohio, died there July 30, 1840.

146 THE HISTORY OF

The fifth child of Thomas Carrington and Jane was
THEODORE GEORGE CRAWFORD, b. July 3,
1828, in Holmes Co., Ohio; d. April 8, 1879, ^t
Olathe, Kansas. Married June 18, 1857, at New
Brighton, Pa., to Mary Emma Pettit, b. Oct 16,
1839, in Bedford Co., Pa., d. January 2, 1897, in
Westport, Kansas City, Mo. Theodore G. C.
Bowles served during the Civil War as ist Lieu-
tenant, Reg. Quartermaster 15th Ohio Infantry,
Aug. 1861; Captain, Quartermaster Volunteers,
April 1862; Captain on General Johnston's Staff;
Brevet Major Volunteers Mar. 13, 1865, I'O'' faith-
ful and meritorious service during the war; mus-
tered out Mar. 2$, 1866. Member of the Kansas
Legislature. Superintendent of the Deaf and
Dumb Institute at Olathe, Kans. (See the U. S.
Biographical Dictionary, Army and Navy Regis-
ter, etc.) Children were:

EDWARD VMNTHROP, b. May 28, i860,
in Mansfield, O.; mar. Jan. 22, 1891, at Wel-
lington, Kansas, to Ella Elizabeth Rouse, b.
June 9, 1867, in Cincinnati, O.. Children:

Theodore Crawford, b. in Kansas City,

Mo., Mar. 23, 1894.

Howard Winthrop, b. in Kansas City,

Mo., Feb. 2, 1898.

LOUIS CARRINGTON, b. April 22, 1864,
in Jeffersonville, Ind.; mar. in Pittsburg,
Kansas, Feb. 19, 1890, to Julia Braznell.
Children:

Lysle Carrington, b. in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Mary Henrietta, died in infancy.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 147

MARY EMMA, b. Jan. 19, 1869, in Ottawa,
Kansas; mar. in Kansas City, Mo., June 21,
1900, to Franz Georg Ernst Buerger, b. June
3, 1863, at Soemmerda, Thuringia, Germany.
Children:

Franz Bowles Buerger, born in Kansas

City, Mo., May 22, 1903.

EDNA RUTH, b. December 25, 1872, in Ot-
tawa, Kansas; d. there August 25, 1873.

EUGENE P. TTIT, b. March 28, 1875, in
Ottawa, Kansas; mar. in Salt Lake Cit> ,
Utah, March 5, 1902, to Florence Bran-.well.

The sixth child of Thomas Carrington and
Jane was
JAMES ROGERS, b. May 30, 1831, in Holmes Co.,
Ohio; mar. Aug. 31, 1853, in Keokuk, Lee Co.,
Iowa, to Mary Ann McEveny. James Rogers
lives at 1321 Olive street, Kansas City, Mo. He
is a contractor who has been engaged successfully
in the constructioii of large enterprises. Children:

ALICE, died in infancy.

CHARLES MADISON, b. 1856, in Keokuk,
Iowa; mar. Emma Dillman in 1880. Lives
at 228 N. Mill street, Kansas City, Kansas,
where he is successfully engaged in poliiics.
Children:

Ernie Dale, born July 15, 1882, in Kansas

City, Kansas.

148 THE HISTORY OF

Ray Russel!, born October 21, 1885, in
Kansas City, Kansas.
Hazel, born August 28, 1894, in Kansas
City, Kansas.

IDA MAY, born October 20, 1859, in Leas-
burg, Crawford County, Mo. Lives in the
family home at 1321 Olive street, Kansas
City, Mo.

CONSTANCE LUELLA, born May 19, 1869,
in Keokuk Lee County, low: ; married Oliver
Neal Axtell, a civil engineer, in 1901. Lives
at 4408 Walnut street, Kansas City, Mo.

The sixth child of John and Jane was

JOHN SAMUEL, born March 13, 1809; married Anna
Charles. Children:

ANNA JEANETTE, born in Maryland; married
Daniel Deford, Ottawa, Kansas. Children:

Frank Porter, born and died in Ottawa, Kans.

Arthur.

ERNEST, born in Maryland; married Mary Dunn;
lives in Kansas City, Mo. Children:

Kitty.

Lee.

Iris.

Robert Edward Harry.

CHARLES, born in Maryland; married Gussie:

THE BOWLES FAMILY 149

lives in Wyoming, Cambria post office.

JOSEPH, born in Maryland; died in Wyoming,
unmarried.

THOMAS, born in Maryland; married Anna; died
in St, Louis, Mo. Child:
Anna.

MOLLY, born in Maryland; died in Ottawa, Kan-
sas; married David Wychoff; no issue.

42

(For Continued Maryland Genealogy see after Life of General

\Vm. Augustus Bowles. )

TtjE UfE

OF

(fEjtEfiJ{L WiLLii{fii J{uqu$jus BowLes.

William Augustus Bowles, the eldest son of
Thomas Bowles, was born in Frederick County, Mary-
land, October 22, 1763. His early education was re-
ceived from the small library of his father, and any
deficiency in this early training was afterward sup-
plied by the marvellous natrral talents of this adven-
turous native of the frontier of America. 43

" He was but a boy wl.en the war which severed
America fiorr. Britain burst forth. Fascinated from
his cradle with the idea of a military life, when but 13

I50 THE HISTORY OF

years of age he fled from the paternal roof and deter-
mined to gratify his romantic wishes. It vvere vain
to inquire whether he was stin.ulated by a partiality
for the English name or by an innate love of enter-
prise; but it is evident that he had not obtained that
mature judgment which alone could have enabled him
to weigh and determine the justice of the contest.

"After surmounting a variety of difficulties and
undergoing the almost incredible latigues and dangers
of a lor.g and lonely mi^rch through the woods, he ar-
rived at the British camp in Philadelphia.

** Unknown and youthful, he was reduced to the
necessity of entering an old regiment of foot, where
he was received as a volunteer, a term by which it is
not meant to convey the station of a common soldier,
but that of a young man serving in expectation of pro-
motion. Soon after this he obtained a commission in
a corps of Maryland troops commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Jan.es Chalmers

When the army v\ as forced to make a retrograde
movement from Philadelphia young Bowles accom-
panied his regiment as a subaltern, and served along
with the flank companies at the battle of Monmouth.

Towards the Autumn of 1778 he embarked for the
island of Jamaica, and afterwards pre reeded to Pensa-
cola, in W est Florida. At the latter place he was de-
prived of his commission in consequence of his defiance
of the rigid rules of discipline. Having been brought
up amidst the forests of the frontier this young man
was unused to restraint and unaccustomed to subordi-
nation. He felt himself fitied to command and could
not submit to the iron discipline of a well-appointed
regular army.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 151

Young Bovvlee submitted to his fate, not merely
with fortitude, but even with the appearance of joy..
Instead of deprecating the melancholy lot "•. hich
seemed to await him, he appeared gay, unconcerned
and happy at having regained his liberty. It is thus
that he is described by a brother-officer in the "Au-
thentic Memoirs of General William Augustus Bowles,
Ambassador of the United Nations of Creeks and
C herokees to the Court of London,*' 1791.

.'* Behold, then, this disbanded yumg soldier,
his last shilling gone, too proud to beg, and too inde-
pendent to stoop to menial offices, an uncultivated and
savage country around him, no guide but cliance, and
no resource but his own fortitude, behold him on the
brink of apparently inevitable ruin. But Fortune,
whose peculiar care he seems to have been, stepped in
to save him. A party of the Creek nation were on
their return home from Pensaccla, where they had
been to receive their annual subsidy, and young
Bowles, delighted with the novelty of the situation
now opened to him, joined the party, having first, in
contempt, thrown his regimental coat into the sea."

A situation so flattering to the independence nat
ural to his heart had doubtless many attractions. But
whether, through the sameness uf the scene or a con-
stitutional restlessness, or actuated through pride to
show himself once more to those who had reduced him
to the appearance of a savage, he left his protectors,
after having resided with them ror a few months, and
came unattended to Pensacoia.

When he arrived on the opposite shore of the bay,
he found a hogshead, which some British ship had left
behind it, and Bowles, impatient of delay, withou^

152 THE HISTORY OF

waiting for any other conveyance, used this hogshead
for his boat, the branch of a tree his mast, a blanket
his sail, and .-. few stones his ballast.

In this dangerous craft he navigated the extensive
Pensacola bay, procuring food by fcwlihg and fishing,
and at night regaling on his prey.

In this very hogshead, perhaps, his bosom first
throbbed with the desire of nautical knowledge. Here
also he had occasion to seek for resource in himself
alone, resources which at a future day were to shield
him in the hour of danger, and which alone could com-
plete him for the leadership of a brave and gallant na-
tion.

It was in Pensacola that Col. Faulder, the author
of "The Memoirs of General Bowies/' first saw the
young Bowles, and his curiosity strongly aroused con-
cerning so strange a character, and the Coloners mind
presaged the daring actions which distinguished the
"Beloved Warrior,'* by which appelati:n he was uni-
versally known to the Creeks end Cherokees.

But this precarious livelihood did not last lung.
The winter of 1779 will lung be remembered in the
Floridas, and young Bowles, almost naked, superior to
the injuries of men, found in the elements an enemy
which no strength of constitution could withstand.
He wanted shelter and it was not long before he :t-
ceived it. Among the inhabitants of the town there
was one, a baker, under whose roof he remained the
greater part of the winter, who, finding him a strong,
robust lad, thought it reasonable he should help to
make the bread which he so plentifully ate.

Highly impressed, as Bowles was, with a sense
of obligation for the hospitality of the stranger, an

THE BOWLES FA.VIILY 153

aversion to manual labor, peculiar to the habits in
which he had so lately indulged, made him reject the
proposal, and he would again have been exposed to all
his former hardships but for his old friends the
Creeks.

The extraordinary inclemency of the weather had
brought them down for provisions, and Bowles once
more returned with them and remained nearly two
years. During this period he strengthened the ties of
friendship by marrying Singing Bird, the daughter of
one of their chiefs.

In "Pickett's History of Alabama'* he is thus
pictured at this time: " The elegant and commanding
form of this wonderful man, fine address, beautiful
countenance uf varied expression, his exalted genius,
daring and intrepidity, all connected with an unceas-
ingly active and ambitious mind, eminently fitted him
to sway the savage Indians and worse traders among
whom he lived"

On the breaking out <.'f hostilities with Spain, he
was distinguished ii. so eminent a degree for vigor and
coolness in action that his fame spread through all the
Floridas, and the most venerable chiefs pointed him
out as an example worthy of imitation.

Having now acquired considerable influence
among the Creeks, who had adopted him into th^eir
tribe at the very period when he was considered an
outcast by those of his own blood, Bowles determined
nevertheless to make use of all his influence for the
advantage of Britain, seeing that the Creeks, menaced
on one side by the Americans and on-the other by the
Spaniards, must depend upon the aid of Britain.

He accordingly collected a small body «>f Indians,

154 THE HISTORY OF

marched to the succor of Pensacola, then menaced by
the Spaniards under Don Galvez, and where he was of
considerable service to general Campbell during the
seige. He distinguished himself on several occasions,
particularly at a sortie made by only ninety-six rank
and file of provincial troops on the enemy's lines at 12
o'clock noon, when the British carried the advanced
post with the loss of only or.e man, while fifty out of
seven hundred Spaniards in the works were killed by
the bayonet alone, besides a great number who were
shot while flying along the trenches.

But the career of this singular man was nearly
terminated by one of those numerous accidents to
which soldiers are ever liable during a seige. A few
days after the memorable sally alluded to above, the
British advanced redoubt happened to be blown up just
as Mr. Bow les was entering it, and had this misfortune
occured but a few secor.ds sooner he must have
inevitably perished. But although he escaped unhurt
he experienced the sensation arising from the de-
struction and annihilation of an hundred men within a
few yards of him.

The services of Mr. Bowles were so highly con-
sidered during this memorable seige that he was rein-
stated in his former rank in the army and mentioned in
despatches to headquarters. He was publicly thanked
by General Campbell, and retired with the garrison to
New York where he continued until duly exchanged in
the course of the following year.

It is fitting here to include one other of the many
military adventures in which he was engaged. In the
year 1780 a small detachment was sent out with the
intention of surprising the Spanish fortified town of

THE BOWLES FAMILY 155

Mobile. Bowles, with several hundred Indians, joined
the party, himself so exactly resembling a savage
warrior that unless he had discovered himself, he
would never have been recognized by his old acquaint-
ances, several of whom served in this expedition. At
daylight on the morning of the 7th of January, 1780,
the signal being given to commence the assault, the
young American left his tribe to fight after their own
manner, and rushed on with the British troops. This
small body, consisting of no more than fifty soldiers,
forced the Spanish works, and actually carried them in
opposition to four hundred of the enemy, who at-
tempted to escape on board an armed vessel; but they
were intercepted by the Indians, who killed many of
them after they had readied the boats.

This very circumstance contributed to the mis-
carriage of the enterprise, for the flight of the garrison
being precluded, the troops composing it took shelter
in their barracks, whence they fired with equal safety
and success at such ioldiers as had not perished in the
assault, for by this time more than one half the origi-
nal detachment had been killed or wounded.

In the midst of the tumult, carnage and confusion
which ensued, Bowles v\ as employed in taking aim
coolly and deliberately with his rifle at the enemy
stationed at the windows, afterwards posting himself
behind a tree, loading and firing alone; but he was at
length dislodged by a cannon ball, which shivered the
body and branches, and compelled him also to retreat
along with his remaining companions, now in full
march homeward.

He, however, had not the good fortune to be be-
loved so much in the regiment to which he again be-

156 THE HISTORY OF

longed, as he was aipong the Indians, for he was soon
after this put under arrest in consequence of menacing
a superior officer, and between 20 and 30 articles were
exhibited against him before a general court martial.
On his trial several friends, among them officers of
high rank, testified in his behalf, and his valuable ser-
vices being reviewed, he triumphantly was acquitted.

Having about this time received a furlugh from
Lord Dorchester, he set out to visit his father in Mary-
land. His restless character, ' owever, did not permit
him to remain long, and he soon rejoined his adopted
brethren, the Creeks, in East Florida. He resided
with them about a year, and although no more than 19
years of age, he^appears at this period to have medi-
tated schemes of ambition which conducted him finally
to the leadership of that important nation. Even now
he had acquired their esteem by his knowledge of
military discipline, tactics and cool, vigorous skill in
battle, and left them deeply impressed both with re-
spect for his talents and affection for his person.

After exploring the coasts of the two Floridas, he
first visited the Southern States, and then repaired to
the Bahamas, where he displayed the versatility of
his talents fly acting in the theatre for the relief of the
loyalist families who had been forced to take refuge
there. ^,n this occasion he actually ornamented the
scenes with his own hand; but, as New Providence
did not at thai time possess the proper colors for his
likenesses, he turned "chemist and created them. In
addition to the accomplishments of acting and painting
this self-taught genius made himself master of the
rudiments of music, in which he became tolerably pro-
ficient.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 157

But, amidst pursuits of this Kind, Mr. Bowies was
not inattentive to matters of higher concern; indeed, it
became after vvards apparent that these polite occupa-
tions were but a screen for his warlike ambiticns.
Having at length accumulated a quantity of warlike
supplies and a vessel to transport them, he repaired
to the continent, and being joined by a strong detach-
ment or Creeks, waited in the neighborhood of St.
Marks, on the Bay of Appalachia, for the arrival of his
stores. The Spanish governor of the adjacent town
was greatly alarmed, but on a remonstrance on the
part of Bowles, accompanied with a threat, that in
case of any opposition, the Creeks would attack the
Spanish, the cargo was successfully landed, and was
soon after C' nveyed by horses to the interior of the
country. It seems to have been his intention t^ form
a magazine for the supply of the Creeks and Chero-
kees with arms and ammuniaun, w ith a view of pene-
trating into the Spanish dominions in South America,
and waging perpetual war with a nation against vs hom
he and they bore the most implacable enmity.

In the course of this project he made many voy-
ages to the Bahamas, in one of which he carried over
five chiefs. Cn the return voyage with these warriors
the ship was almost sunk duri..g a dreadful storm, but
having safely landed his supplies, he now determined
to instruct his companions in the art of navigation,
and for this purpose made several excursions into the
Gulf of Mexico. In one of these he was attacked by a
Spanish vessel cruising for the express purpose of in-
tercepting him, fcr the Spanish governors in America
had now become convinced that he not only intended
to establish an independent power in Florida, but in-

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tended also to create a maritime state. They accord-
ingly resorted to every expedient to apprehend him,
or betray and murder him, having offered a reward of
six thousand dollars and fifteen hundred barrels of rum
for his head.

When attacked by the Spanish ship Bowles had
recourse to strategy, for, upon being fired upon, he
immediately slackened sail, and when the Spanish,
thinking he was helpless, were about to board, he re-
ceived them with so severe and unexpected a fire from
six 4-pounders which had been masked that they were
glad to permit him to escape.

At this time he impressed into his service some
of the desperate buccaneers who infested the Florida
seas, and utilized ihem both for teaching the Creeks
and Cherokees the details of navigation and for captur-
ing ships from the Spanish whic i he afterwards used
in his scheme of empire. Among these buccaneers
were three who had become notorious for deeds of
blood, Willbanks, Blackbeard and Moses Price.

On returning to the Creek country Mr. Bowles
was made First Counsellor by the assembled Creek
and Cherokee chiefs, which office gave him the high-
est civil power, and shortly afterward he was elected
Commander-in-Chief of their armies by acclamation,
thus uniting in his own person the two greatest
offices.

About this time Fate struck a great blow ut the
ambition of Bowles. A fleet of 18 captured Spanish
ships intended to convey the Creeks to the conquest
of South America, and which were moored in Pecua
Bay, was destroyed by a great storm which swept the
wrecks miles inland.

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Perceiving that b:th Spain and the Southern
States had become alarmed, and were making prepara-
tions for war upon the Creeks, Mr. Bowles went to
London and endeavored to enlist the aid of the British
Government, with whom the Creeks had a written
treaty of offensive and defensive alliance. He repre-
sented that he would be unable to repel i^ simultaneous
attack from two powerful nations, and received assur-
ances that Britain would fulfill the terms of the alli-
ance in the event of war. Upon the governments at
Washington and Madrid being notified of this decision
there was a cessation of threatening preparations
directed against the Creeks.

^ hen in London Mr. Bowles greatly impressed
the government by a memorial read in Parliament re-
citing the perils surrounding the Creek and Cherokee
Nations, their resources and defensive capacity, and
the part he had himself borne in promoting and direct-
ing the national aspirations. A quotation from this
memorial is as follows :

" On my return from the army in New York my
youth did not permit me to a seat among the chiefs of
the national council. I employed myself in encouraging
agriculture, and in infusing a spirit of honest industry
in the minds of the more moderate around me. I also
instructed the young men in the use of the different
instrurr.ents of war, as well as inculcated the advanta-
ges of military discipline. To this end I frequently
dreu' out parties into the desert under pretext of hunt-
ing, composed at times of from one hundred to seven
hundred men. My marches were always conducted
with military order, my camps regularly formed, with
the necessary guards, pickets, etc. As if I had been

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in an enemy's country I laid ambuscades, planned
sham battles, and endeavored to show them that the
strength of an army consisted in the union and co-op-
eration of all its parts, thereby to destroy that inde-
pendence which arises from a reliance on personal
agility and strength only; to bring them by degrees to
be commanded, to rely on the chief for the preserva-
tion of the whole, and only act agreeably to his orders.
I also established a manufacture of porcelain and
earthen ware for home use, and thus, by dividing my
attention to a number of objects and appearing steady
to none, I avoided creating jealousies. People were
pleased with my pipkins, while they thought me a
somewhat flighty young man, who never once serious-
ly reflected upon anything, therefor was never dan-
gerous.

'* But observing that the State of Georgia main-
tained an appearance of hostilities, and that expresses
were constantly passing to and from Alexander McGil
lavrey, who was the bitterest opponent of my policy.
The contents of these messages were never fully com-
municated to the chiefs, which determined me to dis-
cover the real intentions of Georgia.

"in the latter end of 1785, after consulting with
sorrx of the chiefs, I departed secretl) , and attended
in disguise the meeting of the Assembly at Augusta,
in Februar) , 1786, where I made myself acquainted
with the prominent characters - f the State, heard the
debates in the Assembly respecting war with us, in-
formed myself of the force they could bring into the
field, the state of their magazines, etc., and returned
home satisfied we had nothing to fear from the State
of Georgia, etc., etc.'*

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On the return of Mr. Bowles he called a council of
the chiefs, and it was resolved to replenish the maga-
zines, to strengthen the confederation of the h.dian
tribes, and to place the Creek and Cherokee nations
in complete preparation for war.

Great Britain and Spain were at this time upon
the point of war, and Mr Bowles went to the Bahamas
accompanied by four chiefs, to offer the aid of the
United Nations if Creel. s and Cherokees to Great
Britain during the war. Mr. Bowles was treated with
great distinction by tiie Governor, Lord Dunmore, who
gave him the king's commission ls a general in the
army and premised large supplies of arms and ammu-
nition, the Creeks and Cherukeet on their part guar-
anteeing to place in tht field seven thousand warriors.

General Bowles procured ships and through the
aid of Hon. John Miller, a wealthy planter and Presi-
dent of the C'Uncil, large supplies ^f arms, ammuni-
tion, and other vvariike supplies, were safe'iy conveyed
tu the Creek and Cherokee magazines.

General Bowles, however, had hardly completed
his preparations, w hen he received despatches from
Bahama announcing that a treaty guaranteeing peace
had been signed betw een Great Britain and Spain,
but the decisive coi-duct of Bowles on this occasion
and the completeness of his preparations for attacking
them, produced the most inveterate rancor and hatred
among the Spaniards, and they then began to meditate
those schemes of revenge which at length proved but
too successful.

In 1791 he found that the Vazoo and Tennessee
Company, which had offered him a bribe of $20,000
and 200,000 acres of land, had obtained a grant of nine

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million acres of land from the American Congress, and
that an American army was on the frontier to support
their pretensions. McGillavrey had corrupted several
of the chiefs during the absence of Bowles, and these
chiefs had almost con pleted negotiations with the
United States highly disadvantageous to the Creek
and Cherokee Nations.

These events, however, served but to exercise
his talents. He drove back the adventurers who had
crossed the frontier, forced McGillavrey to tly and sent
a party to pursue him, molilized his army at strategic
points, and the American troops, impressed with his
complete preparation for war, retired without commit-
ting any act of aggression.

He called a great council of the Nations, and. the
courxil decreed that the ports of Appalachicola, Oak-
welochre and Tampa should be declared free to all na-
tions not at war with them. It was also decreed that
they should use a national flag, that their vessels
might be recognized and respected.

Ai'ter despatching several hundred warriors to
guard these ports, he set off in December to lay out
towns f^T the convenience of settlers, and while en-
gaged in surveying at Oakv\elochre an unsuccessful
attempt v\as made to assassinate him in the midst of
his faithful followers. The would be assassins were
pursued and killed near Appalachee.

But in 1792 the Spanish plots bore fruit and they
succeeded in entrapping this man whom they were
unable to either corrupt or to conquer.

On the 20ih of February, 1792, two Spanish offi-
cers, Don Joseph de Havia and Major J. Rosseau, ar-
rived with despatches from the Governor of Louisiana

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addressed to General Bowles as Chief of the United
Nations.

In these his excellency stated that he had received
and forwarded the papers transmitted by the United
Nations relative to opening their ports, trade, etc., for
the inspection of Count Florida Blanca, minister of
State, but that an answer must not be expected in less
than six months.

Orders, however, had arrived in the interim to
form a treaty that should obviate all possible doubts,
and remove all future jealousies. But as the distance
and uncertainty of conveyance rendered it impossible
to negotiate by means of letters, the governor had de-
spatched a vessel with two officers to propose that
General Bowles should accompany them to Nev Or-
leans, where they could treat on terms favorable to
both nations. It was flatteringly int. mated that he wis
awaited at New Orleans with the utmost impatience,
where the great chief would be treated with the great-
est distinction.

A council was held to determine upon an answer,
and after a long debate it was determined that the war
chief should adjust the treaty in person, although
many of the sachems endeavored to dissuade General
Bowles from trusting to the perfidious promises of
Spain. On this the two Spanish officers immediately
pledged the honor of their nation that General Bowles
v/ould return within forty da) s.

Everything being thus settled to all appearance in
the most friendly manner, they proceeded to New Or-
leans, where, after some previous discussion, the gov-
ernor pretended that his own powers were insufficient
to treat on matters of such great importance, and that

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General Bowles must therefore be sent to Spain. In
short, the minister plenipotentiary was seized, put on
board an armed vessel, and conducted to Spain as a
prisoner!

He was carried to Madrid, and it was actually
proposed that he negotiate a treaty while in confine-
ment. He, on his part, proposed that the matters in
dispute be left to the arbitration of the king of Great
Britain. This was refused. He was assured, how-
ever, of the profound respect in which he was held by
the ministers and the king of Spain, and was offered a
high commission in the Spanish service. Upon this
propositicn being contemptuously rejected, his guard
was doubled, and he was informed that his power was
too great among the Indians for him to be perm.tted to
return to America.

General Bowles was treated by turns with great
rigL/r succeeded by a period of flattering c nsideration,
but to each method he returned but a stern and uncom-
promising demand for freedom.

Affairs remained in this situation until the ist of
January, 1794, when he was surrounded by a company
of light horse and escorted to Cadiz, where he was
confined in a fortress for an entire year, while cease-
less attempts were made to get him to sign a treaty
disadvantageous to his nation.

On January 4, 1795, ^""^ '"^'^s embarked on board
a vessel without knowing whither it was bound, but
after a tempestuous voyage around Cape Horn it
arrived in the harbor of Lima where it was proposed
that if he would accept the offers of the king of Spain,
he could return to Spain. Upon his refusal, the ves-
sel continued its voyage and upon the morning of the

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27th of November, 1795, General Bowles arrived at
Manilla.

On the day after his arrival the Ccrregidor read
to him a paper setting forth the reasons for his being
detained a prisoner and sent to that distant part of the
world. This paper set forth "that he intended to at-
tack and possess himstlfof his Majesty's colonies of
Louisiana and Florida, and that he proposed to declare
the ports free to all nations not at war with him or his
nation, that for the good of his majesty's service he
must be detained in the Island of Luzon," etc., etc.

In the 'Memoirs" General Bowles gives an inter-
esting account of his return: **|On the 2d of Febru-
ary, 1797, the Corregidor desired me to prepare, add-
ing, with a significant sneer, 'that his majesty had
ceded the Mississippi and all his possessions in Florida
to the French Republic," and he "supposed I would
treat with the French, although 1 had refused to do so
with Spam."

"This happened at 10 uVlock in the morning and
at 2 _ 'clock the same day I sailed out of the bay of
Manilla en board the ship "La Purissima Concepci-
one," which touched at the Isle de France, where I
first understood the state of Europe, learned of the war
between Great Britain and Spain, and the certainty
that Spain had ceded Florida to the French Republic.

At that time a declaration of war was hourly ex-
pected and the democratic party at the Isle de France
congratulated me on the prospect of an alliance be-
tween my nation and the French Republic, while sev-
eral Americans, en the other hand, expressed their un-
easiness on seeing me return to Europe, but offered
me a passage to New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore,

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as vessels were then lying in the harbor bound to these
ports, which offer, however, I declined. I observed
a profound silence in respect to all parties, and deter-
mined not to return to Spain, but, on the contrary I
had a plan to seize the Spanish ship while at sea and
to proceed home with her."

"It became impossible to put the plot into execu-
tion, however, owing to the calm w eather which per-
mitted the convoy of t\\ o frigates to sail close, until
the i6th of April, near the Cape de Verde Islands,
when, the plot being discovered and several persons
imprisoned, I contrived to get on the African coast on
the 9th of May."

"I proceeded along the coast to Sierra Leone,
where the governor. Sir Zachary Macauly, procured
me passage in a small vessel bound for London. A
storm severely dam.iged this vessel, and, being over-
taken by the British ship-of-war Isis, Captain Mitchell
offered me passage to England."

An incident which obtained wide circulation in
Europe at the time is worth recording here:

During the voyage from Pensacola to Cadiz one
of the officers who had so basely betrayed him fell
overboard, and, being unable to swim, was in immi-
nent danger of being drow ned. General Bow les at
this moment happened to stand en the poop-deck,
clothed in the gorgeous Spanish dress of the period,
and beheld his betrayer struggling feebly in the sea.
Throw ing aeide the gold-laced habit, the captive chief
leaped into the ocean and sw am towards the drow^ning
Spaniard. Lifting up the Sp-^niard's head, Bowles
addressed himintheCastilijn language thus : "Wretch !
It is in my power either tc leave you to your fite or to

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precipitate you to the bottom of the ocean. Live
however!" he added, raising him up, 'Mf life can be
desirable to such a man as you, and you can take it
from my hands!" Having spoken thus he bore him
towards the frigate and helped him to get on board.
This circumstance made a deep impression on the
minds of the spectators, and, to the honor of the Span-
iards be it recorded, it was related afterwards at Ma-
drid with great eulogium and applause.

Having at length landed in England without the
necessaries of life, he proceeded to Walmer Castle,
where William Pitt was then residing, and had a long
audience with the great minister. He recounted his
adventures to Pitt and gave him information based up-
on his knowledge of conditions in the Spanish and
French territories bordering upon the United States.
This interview resulted in a warm friendship between
Bowles and the great statesman; which resulted in
Pitt ever afterward aiding him.

General Bowles proceeded to London and pre-
sented letters received from Pitt to ministers of the
government. The Duke or Portland secured him every
accommodation; he accompanied Lord Peterborough
to a great review of troops, and when he left London
for America he had received assurances that abundant
supplies of warlike material for his nation would be
put upon the coast of Florida.

This visit of General Bowles to London excited
wide interest and caused various descriptions of his
appearance.

"Public Characters" pictures him: ''General
Bowles is not more than 36 years of age. He pos-
sesses a handsome and manly person; his countenance

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is intelligent, and he has something peculiarly warlike
in his look and attitude, as if by nature destined for
command. In stature he is npwards of six feet, mus-
cular in his frame, and constructed in such a manner
as to unite strength and agility. In consequence,
perhaps, of having lived long in the woods, his com-
plection has assumed an olive hre, and he is but little
fairer than any of the warriors of his nation. When
attired in the dress of an Indian chieftain, he appears
noble and majestic, as may be seen from an inspection
of his engraved portrait."

•*'The London News Letter/* touches "upon his
perfect skill at a tactician in Indian warfare, the great
breadth of his shoulders, the varied talei.ts of his in-
tellect, the martial aspect of .his countenance, and says
that he is more than six feet in height.**

"The Authentic Memoirs of William Augustus
Bowles" gives, a long description: ''In stature Bowles
commands our attention from his height, and the con-
formation of his limbs is such as that of the gladiator
in the statues, denoting the combined qualities of
strength and activity With a countenance upen,
bold and penetrating, he has acquired the gravity of
manners corresponding with those of the naticns whose
habits he has assumed. His constitution, superior to
all climates and equal to tiie greatest bodily exertions,
disdains the indulgence of effeminate pleasures. Tem-
perance he practices. from choice, and the force of his
example manifests itself among his people. In the
endowments of his mind nature has particularly formed
•him for great and daring achievement^; but the leading
feature of his soul is ambition,, to which every other
passion is made subservient. Intrepid and enterpris-

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ing, his motions, tJie effects of deliberate reflection,
are sudden as lightning, and less suspected. To these
talents of a warrior he unites accomplishments which
not only excite in our minds the highest pitch of ad-
miration, but even approach to the marvellous. He is
an actor without having seen above three dramatic
perforn ances in his life. A painter, who never saw
the effects of the art but on a sign-post. A chemist,
without even the rudiments of the science. A sailor,
without study of the principles of navigation. A self-
taught warrior, instructing savages in tactics, and re-
ducing their barbarous spirits to the rules of military
discipline. A legislator, forming a code of laws wisely
adapted to their manners and situation; changing him
from the hunter to the more civilized state of the herds-
man. A politician, unpracticed in courts, yet claiming
the attention of the priucipal powers of Europe, and
when we have view ed him assimilating such contrari-
eties of character, our admiration will have no bounds,
when it is known that the 'Beloved Warrior' of the
most warlike of all the Indian tribes has just attained
his six and twentieth year.*' (1791),

* 'Pickett's History of Alabama " gives an account
of a meeting: "Approaching the sea, Elliott found,
vv'recked upon Fox Point, a schooner of the British
navy, commanded by Lieutenant Woolbridge, on board
of which was the celebrated General Wm. Augustus
Bowles. Bowles had used this schooner to capture
and destroy numerous vessels of Spain and of the
French and Spanish traders. General Bowles ad-
dressed Elliott a polite note inviting him to the wreck,
where, when he repaired, he was received with great
kindness." Lieutenant Elliott in a report of the inci-

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dent, wrote that "the handsome presence and the
fascinating charm of his manners, makes it possible to
understand the power of General Bowles over the red
Indian and the white savage."

When General Bowles returned to Florida he
found the Creek and Cherokee Nation greatly reduced
in strength, as the Spaniards had taken advantage of
his captivity to divide their councils and tj destroy
those who \\ ere hostile to them.

The warriors of the Nation flocked to greet the
great chief, and to pledge their loyalty, and by the
summer cf 1802 Bow les had moulded their policy to
his own will, had organized them, replenished their
magazines, and accompanied by a body of warriors es-
timated at 4000, he advanced against the whole frontier
of the Spanish possessions. After capturing many
small posts and fighting several desperate battles, he
had, before the following winter, driven the Spaniards
to the shelter of the fcTlified tow ns.

At this time he had formed a formidable C'^nfed-
eracy with the Five Nations, had se. ured the firm
friendship of the Mohawks, h: d either m.ade binding
agreements or had intimidated the Southern States,
and with his frontier secured from that side considered
himself strong enough to again shake the grasp of
Spain in North America.

But the Spanish government displayed the energy
of terror in its efforts to seize this man whose portent-
ous preparations to destroy their empire were so for-
midable. Spain appealed to the British government to
denounce Bowles. Spanish agents appeared in the
American border states to turn the sentiment against
him, and the friends of McGillavrey becime venm-

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ously active. Sixty thousand dollars reward was
offered by the Spanish Government fcr Bowles* head.
Two attempts were made to assassinate him. One un-
successful party of assassins was pursued and de-
stroyed by Bowles' friends. A notorious buccaneer
named Waite attempted to shoot him, but was killed
by Bowles with a tomahawk.

But these desperate efforts of a desperate govern-
ment were at length successful, for in the autumn of
1804 he was betrayed into the hands of his enemies.
He had commenced the campaign in the spring by at-
tacking the town of St. Marks, v. hich he captured and
destroyed. He then, after destroying several trading
posts, among others, that of Panton, Leslie & Co.,
proceeded in the direction of New Orleans at the head
cf five thousand warriors. While on the march, when
at Avtauga Spring, he received word that the Choctaw
chiefs were holding a council feast at i usgegee. He
was desirous of attaching these chiefs tu his interest,
and came to the feast attended only by some Micca-
soochy ciiiefs.

The Americans and Spaniards had combined t-j
capture him by treachery, and during the feast he was
suddenly seized by concealed Indians, securely pin-
ioned and placed in a canoe full of armed warriors,
which was rowed rapidly down the stream. That
night Bowles gnawed the r jpcs which bound him and
while his guards slept, crossed the river in the canoe.
Accidentally bre: king the bottom of the canoe caused
him tL leave it upon the bank as he plunged into a
thick cane brake. At daylight, as the astonished In-
dians recovered from the consternation caused by his
escape, they found the abandoued canoe, and so got

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upon his trail. A wounded foot impeded the speed of
General Bowles, and by midday, after a desperate re-
sistance, he was once more a prisoner. He was con-
veyed to Mobile, and from thence upon a Spanish frig-
ate, to Havana, where he was marched through the
streets and his capture celebrated as a triumph.

The great adventurer disappears from mortal ken
into the gloomy dungeons of Morro Castle. Here the
cruel neglect of his jailers caused his death by starva-
tion, and on December 23, 1805, when the British
agent had opened the door of his dungeon, the stormy
but splendid spirit of William Augustus Buwles had
taken its tlight, and the majestic form which had
excited the admiration of two hemispheres Ia> mould-
ered to a skeleton.

His descendants were distinguished -^mong the
warriors of the Nation for skill and sagacity. One,
the famcus Chief Bowles, was the intimate friend of
General Sam. Houston, and fought by the side of that
hero through the Texan war for independence. Chief
Bowles fought for the United States throughout the
Mexican war. He was killed in battle with Texans
in 1851.

Continued /BbavslanD Ocncaiog^.

The Children of John Samuel Bowles and Anna
Charles, all born in Washington County,
Mar> land, were:

Anna Jeanette, who married Daniel Deford, and
who now lives in Denver, Col.;

John Charles, noted presently;

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Ernest;

Joseph Henry;

Thomas Carington, who died in Texas?

Molly Carington;

\\ iiliam Augustus.

JOHN CHARLES BOWLES married Augusta Bran-
don Yerby, of Iowa, in September, 1892. The
children are

Dorothy Jeanette, b. in Wyo. Jan., 1898;

John Charles, Jr. b. in Wyo. Dec, 1904.
Johii Charles lived in Texas a good many years,
engaged intne3toc< business. He drove cattle
for 15 years over the trail Irom Texas to Kans.,
Col. Neb., Wyo. and Montana, He is ntw en-
gaged in raising horses and cattle on his ranch at
Cambria, Weston County, Wyoming. The
Bowles brand for the range is:

M M
2 2

The eighth child of Thomas and Eleanor was

ISAAC BOWLES, b. April i, 1777; mar. Mary Bag-
ford April 16, 1798; she died at the home of her son
Samuel in 1842 in Bow lesville. Rock Island cc, 111.
Isaac moved from Maryland to Rock Bridge, Va.
In 1816 he moved to Eaton, Ohio; in 1818 to Indi-
ana, lived there until 1837; in that year ceased
housekeeping and passed tbe rest of their lives
visiting their children. Isa^^c died in 1847 ^t the
home of his son John in Louisiana.
The children of Isaac and Mary Bagford were

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William A.

Harriet.

Constance C.

James H.

Thomas Carrington.

Matilda.

Samuel, b. 1809, d. 1893. He founded

Bowlesville, III. His children were a

son, S. M. Bowles, living at Moline,

111., and a daughter.
John W., who owned a line of boats on Red

River, and who lived in Louisiana-.
Madison.
Caroline.

THOMAS CARRINGTON BOWLES, b. January 24,
1806; d. August 16, 1840. He mar, AnnaPatton,
Feb. II, 1834, who was born July 31, 1808; died
Mar. 26, 1866. Their children weie

LEWIS STERLING, b. Dec. 8, 1834; mar. Lizzie
Andrews Sept. 25, 1861. Lewis Sterling is a
distinguished physician, proprietor Hotel Bowles,
Bloomington, and resides at Paoli, Ind. Their
two children are

William Thomas, b. July 17, 1862; mar. April
28, 1886, Mary G. Osborn, whose children
are Lewis S., b. March 30, 1887;

Eleanor, b. July 24, 1889;

Marie, b. July 31, 1892.

James Andrew, b. June 8, 1877; mar. Hazel W.
Simmons on Feb. 10, 1904.

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The second son of Thomas Carrington
and Anna Patton was
JOHN HAMILTON, b. Oct. 8, 1836; d. June 16,
1898. He mar. Kittie Fields Feb. 17, 1874.

The third son of Thomas Carrington and
and Anna Patton was
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, b. July 25, 1838; mar.
Sarah Elizabeth Lagenaur, July 5, 1866.

JOHN BOWLES was one of three brothers who came
from England uith Lord Baltimore and "settled in
St. Mary's county, Maryland. He was accom-
panied by his wife and the family remained in
St. Mary's for four generations.

JOHN BOWLES and wife, living in St. Mary's in
1774, had eight children: William^ John Baptist,
Joseph, Jane, James J., Susan, Henrietta and
Mary. In 1789 John Baptist, Joseph, Jane, James
J, and Mary moved to Kentucky and settled in
Scctt county. Joseph married Alice Raley and
lived and died in Washington county, Kentucky.
Jant married Ignatius Greenwell, and their son
Robert married Maria Twynan and settled in St.
Charles county, Mo. Mary married William
Roberts and their daughter Elizabeth married John
Burkman, who settled in Montgomery county, Mo.

JOHN BAPTIST married Henrietta Wheatly, and
their eight children were Walter, James W., born
near Bardstown, Ky., in 1795, Leo, Clara, Eliza-
beth, Catharine, Matilda, and Celicia. Walter
married Rosa McAfee ai.d settled in St. Charles

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county, Mo., in 1828. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812 and was still living in 1875 Jri his 87Lh
year. Leo married Teresa McAtee, and settled in
St. Charles county, Mo., in 1831; they had seven
children. Clara married Dennis Onan, and they
lived in Ky. C atharine married Stephen T. Mc-
Atee, who settled in St. Charles coi;nty in 1834;
they had eight children. Stephen McAtee aad his
youngest son George died the same da and were
buried in the same grave. ' atilda married Walter
Barnes and they lived in Kentucky. Celicia mar-
ried James W. Drury, who settled in St. Charles
county in 1835; they had thirteen children.

JAMES W. married Susan Luckett and settled in St.
Charles county, Mo., in 1835. They had six chil-
dren, five of them sons: William R , John B.,
(Colonel in Union Army), James W., Aloysius,
Joseph Luckett. Of these the first four are dead.
James W. left a son in St. Charles county, Mo.

JOSEPH LUCKETT lives in Augusta, Ga., where he
is president of The J. L. Bowles Furniture Co.
His sons are:
Joseph Luckett, Jr., born Jan. 18, 1880, in Sa-
vannah, Ga. Private secretary to Gen.
Supt. S* uthern R. R., Washington, D. C.
Marion Boozer, born Feb. 24, 1891, in Augusta.
Samuel Pressley, born May 31, 1893, in -.ugusta.

"William and Mary College Quarterl> " vols, i
and 2, mentions the marriage of members of the Mary-
land family to Virginians: "James Buwies made his
will June 13, 1727, and names v. ife Rebecca, daughters
Eleanor, Mary and Jean, and uncle George Bowles.

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Eleanor married (i) Col. Wm. Gooch, son cf Governor
Gooch of Virginia, (2) Col. Warner Lewis, of Warner
Hall, Gloucester county, Va. Mary married Colonel
Wm. Armistead, son of Colonel Henry Armistead of
Gloucester county.

James Bowles' wife Rebecca was a granddaughter
of Admiral John Addison of the British navy. Rebecca
Addison Bowles, as widow, married Sir Robert Henley,
Lord Chancellor of England and Earl of Northington.

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THE BOWLES FAMILY 185

Zhe Bew Enolanb Brancb.

The first recorded bearer of the Bowles name in
New England was William Bowles, who was Clerk of
the Council for New. England in 1622. 18

The most distinguished line of the name in New
England, both for the clarity of its descent and the
eminence of the men it has contributed to the nation's
greatness, is called by genealogists the "Roxbury
Bowleses."

The founder of the Roxbury line was John Bowles,
who came from England in the ship ''Hopewell" in
1636. 19 He was long a member of ihe Massachu-
setts Company, for as early as March, 1629, he had
contributed 25 pounds to its treasury. 20

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Landing in Boston, after the ship had experienced
a fearful storm which caused her to leak, John Bowies
came to Roxbury, where he was living in 1639, ^^^
where he was admitted to the church, with Dorothy,
his wife, in 1640. He was admitted a freeman May
13, 1640, and a member of the Artillery Company in
1645. H^ ^^'^s one of the founders of the Free School
in Roxbury, and received the thanks of the town for
his services to the community. He was mortally
injured by being run over by a cartwheel, and was
buried September 14, 1660. His will was made on
August 22, 1660, and probated October 5th following.
By it his son John was made executor and his \\ if e
Sarah, daughter Elizabeth White, daughter Mary
Gardner were named in it.

His first wife Dorothy had died of small-pox No-
vember 3, 1649, ^rid was buried the same day. It is
thought she had no children. He married April 2,
1650, Elizateth, daughter of Isaac Heath, whose child-
ren were:

Elizabeth, b. June 2, 1651; bapt. Feb. 23, 1651;
Isaac, b. April, 1652, bapt. May 15, d. 1652;
John, b. June, 1653; bapt. July 17, 1653; in

Harvard College 1655;
Mary, b. April 20; bapt. April 29, 1655.

Elizabeth Heath Bowles died July 6, 1655.

A third wife, Sarah, who may have been the wid-
ow of Francis Chickering, as before marrying him she
had been of John Sibley, burvived him to Sept. 2,
1686; but her will was dated June 21, 1681. In it she
gives equal portions to her brother Joseph Hovv and
.son, Daniel Smith, Samuel Newman, Thomas Metcalf,
William Syn mes, double portion to son John Bowles,

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and equal portions to daughter Mary Gardner,
Wm. Thomas Gardner, John White and Timothy
Dwight.

Mary married Thomas Gardner, Nov. 17, 1673.
Elizabeth married (perhaps) John Whiter 21

REV. JOHN BOWLES was baptized by the
Apostle Eliot, June 27, 1653. He was admitted a free-
man in 1680, and was married, by the venerable
Eliot, Nov. 16, 1681, to Sarah, daughter of Rev. John
Eliot, and granddaughter of the Apostle, and of Thomas
Willet, first mayor of New York. The Rev. John
Bowles was graduated at Harvard in 1671, a classmate
of Chief Justice Sewall. He was a very prominent
man and was mentioned in the memoirs and records of
the time as concerned in great public movements. He
was elected a representative to the General Court in
1689, Speaker of the House in 1690, and it is recorded
by the Apostle Eliot that "Brother Bowles died in
Roxbury on August 7, 1691, having been a ruling
elder in the Church about five years.*' He founded,
with Isaac Heath, the famed Roxbury Grammar School
from which so many boys issued to make a name in
the world His son,

>/'AJOR JOHN BOWLES, was the eldest child,
and was born March 15, 1685. His father, when dying,
left him in the care of the Rev. Mr. Walter, a minister
who preached the first sermon in the present meeting-
house (1885) ii^ Roxbury. He was reared in the strict
manner of the times, was given the education of the
elementary schools and w as graduated at Harvard in
1703. He was Major in the militia, Justice of the
Peace, and was chosen Representative in 1728. He
married twice, (i)Lydia, daughter of Samuel Check-

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ley, by whom he had five children, (2) to Frances
White, sister of Wm. White, treasurer of Harvard
College and clerk of the House of Representatives. By
his second marriage he had one son, John. His only
daughter, Mary, married Benjamin Lynde, afterward
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position previ-
ously held by his father. Major John Bowies died on
March 28, 1737, of jaundice, and the esteem in which
he was held was expressed by a long article in the
"Thursday News Letter" of April 8, 1737, called ''The
Life and Character of John Bowles, Esq." The chil-
dren of Major John Bowies were:

Mary,
John,

Samuel, b, March, 171 3:

William, b. March, 171 5;

Joshua, b. May 3, 1722.
Josh!;a married Mary, daughter of Captain Ralph Hart,
a noted shipbuilder and builder of the first ship "Con-
stitution." She died January 16, 1780, aged 52 years.
Captain Ralph Hart, her father, died in Boston in 1776
aged TJ Joshua Bowies owned and occupied a house
in Charter street, near the head of Salem street, in
Boston. He was a carver of furniture, a kind of work
very fashionable at the time. He never had much
property, for "indeed," as Samuel Bowles remarked
in his Genealogical Notes, "I do not think our ances-
tors were ever distinguished for the acquisition of
wealth." Joshua Bowles was a very benevolent,
pious man. An old lady, who knew him well in her
youth, said that when walking behind him in the
street she had heard him praying audibly. Like many
other good men of his d.iy, he had a queer way of

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mingling religious and secular thoughts and words. In
a letter to his son Samuel he once wrote: ''Dear Sam-
uel, strive to live in the fear of God and write me word
how the boat comes on.'* The boat referred to being
a pleasure and sail boat kept to hire. Joshua died in
Boston August 30, 1794, aged 72 years. The children
of Joshua and Mary Hart were:

Joshua, b. Oct. 19, 1754; d. June 3, 1792;
Sarah, b. February 3, 1756; m. Mr. Phipps,

of Charlestown;
Ralph Hart, b. March 10, 1757; d. Sept. 181 3,

at Machias, Me.;
John, b. Mar. 2, 1759; d. Sept, 24, 1808, in

Hartford;
Mary, b. Sept. 21, 1760; m. Mr. Edes v)f

Boston;
Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1762; d. Hartlord Mar. 31,

1813;

Lydia, b. Sept. 15, 1764; m. Joseph Austin,
of Boston;

William, b. Nov. 19, 1766; d. at sea, 1803.
SAMUEL, the sixth child of Joshua, was, like all
his brothers, brought up in Boston, except for a short
time during the seige. At the time of the declaration
of Independence he was but 14 years old. His educa-
tion was meagre, as might be supposed in such times*
Probably all his school advantages were obtained from
Master Tileston, the celebrated North End schoolmas-
ter. The queer discipline and crude manners of Master
Tileston have made him famous. Samuel, at one time
during his attendance at this school, assisted a baker
in serving his bread in the morning. This obliged him
to rise very early and often cut off his time for break-

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fast if he would reach school in season. Fn such an
emergency he would put a biscuit in his pocket, to eat
when he had opportunity. One morning he entered
school late, and endeavored to reach his seat quietly
and unobserved. But Master Tileston sa^ him and
sarcastically called the attention of the school to him
by saying: "See that boy skulking to his seat with a
biscuit sticking out of his pocket." Samuel learned
the trade of pewterer in Boston. In May, 1785, when
about 22 years old, he married Sarah Harris, a native
of Boston and a descendant of John Harris, who lived
in Charlestou n in 1658. Both Samuel and his wife
were brought up under the relgnous teachings and in-
fluence nf the ''Old South." The operations and
effects of the Revolution, having spoilt the pewtering
business, Samuel left Boston and after a short stay in
Providence came to Hartford about the year 1789 with
two young children. In going out of Hartford on a
trading trip his leg v\ as fractured, which crippled him
for life. He was unable to resun.e his former business
and rpened a grocery store in North Main street, then
called Burr street. In his small grocer> business he
accumulated in a few years six or eight hundred
dollars, besides supporting an increasing family. He
afterw: rds owned and occupied a store at the corner of
North Main and Trumbull streets, the store bounded
■A est by Trumbull street. He also bought a house
about 40 rods north, on the opposite side of Main
street. He lived there with his family about 6 years,
and his family occupied it about one year after his
death. Samuel died on March 31, 181 3, from an in-
tlan.mation of the lungs w hich had continued several
weeks. He was conscious to the last, and gave his

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family an affectionate farewell. He was a man of
good sense, quick wit, tender feelings, and strict hon-
esty. Though not a member of any church, he main-
tained faithfully and liberally a connection with the
Baptists, and he was always governed by a sense of
religious duty in bringing up his family. He contribu-
ted freely, accordii.g to his means, to the support of
religious worship and of benevolent objects. His fam-
ily bible he purchased in 1804 with a barrel of flour,
the comparative price of which was then much more
than it is now.

The children of Samuel were:

Samuel, b. Feb. 17, 1786; d. Sept. i, 1787;
Ralph Hart, b. Jan. 21, 1787; d. in Hartford

July 2, 1828;
Samuel, b Jan. 26, 1788; d. Sept. i, 1789;
John, b. June 12, 1789; lived in Palmer, Mass.;

date of death unknown;
Sarah Harris, h. March 27, 1792; d. Oct. 2j>,

1810;
Samuel, b. Sept. 31, 1793; d. Aug. 10, 1794;
Josiah Harris, b. Aug. 10, 1796; d. Oct. 12, 1797;
Samuel, b. June 8, 1797: d.
Adelia S., b. Dec. 13, 1800; married (i) John

Harris Nov. 20, 1821; (2) Asa Darrow about

1838. She died Aug. 13, 1851.

SAMUEL, the eighth son of Samuel and Sarah
Harris, was a man of wide reputation in New England.
He, in conjunction with Frederick D. Bolles, founded
the Hartford Times in 1817. Frederick D. Bolles was
of the Bowles blood, but of that branch of the family

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which preferred the ancient spelling of the name. He
early distinguished himself as a political controversial-
ist and as an accurate and industrious news gatherer.
A genealogical record states: ''Samuel Bowles, the
eighth son and the fourth Samuel of Samuel, was a
gentleman of talents and for several years edited the
Times, a political paper in Hartford, Conn., but a few
years later removed with his family to Springfield,
Mass., where he again became an editor of his own
political newspaper, The Republican, and died in
Springfield in 1851 highly respected." It was in 1824
that 1 he Republican was founded, and it has been a
monument cf enduring honor to the character of Samuel
Bowles. He possessed in great measure the honesty
and shrewdness of the New England type, and so
shaped The Republican that it became a great power
not only in Massachusetts, brt in New England. He
was worthily and brilliantly succeeded by his son rnd
grands'.'n in the proprietor-editorship. Samuel was
the first to obtain the kindly appellation of "Samuel
Bowles of Springfield," which descended to his son
and grandson, and which hiis ever been uttered in the
American newspaper world as a tribute to the skill and
honor of the editors of The Republican. He compiled
and printed in 1851 the "Genealogical and Hist )rical
Notes of the Bowles Family," which was the first
genealogical work treating exclusively of the Bowles
family in America. The material for these Notes was
compiled in the closing days of a busy life, and have
become celebrated among genealogists and librarians
for clearness and accuracy. Thornton, Hinman, and
other historians have drawn appreciatively from these
Notes, and the compiler of this volume used them ex-

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"Clusively for the facts of the Ro>^iiry famHy . Samuel
died Sept. 8, 1851. He married Huldah Deming on
February 12, 1822. Huldah Deming was born in
Wethersfield, Conn., November 25, 1796, and died in
Springfield, Mass., in 1871. The children of this union
were:

Albert, b. January 17, 1823; d. Aug. 16, 1823.

. Julia, b. Feb. 21, 1824; married Adonijah Foot

June 20, 1848; d. Aug. 29, 1851.

Samuel, b. Feb. 9, 1826; mar. Mary S. Dwight

Schermerhorn, Sept. 6, 1848; d. Jan. 16,

1878.

Amelia Peabody, b. Feb. 18, 1828; mar. Henry

Alexander Nov. 8, 1847; died in 1896.
Benjamin Franklin, b. April 19, 1833; "^^r.
Mary E. Bailey; d. in Paris May 4, 1876.

SAMUEL, the third child of Samuel 6th, succeeded to
The Republican upon his father's death, and for
31 years he edited that paper with such splendid
ability that it ranked with the highest in Ameri-
can journalisir.. His skill as a practical editor was
not exceeded in America, and he was satisfied
with nothing less tnan the best work, sparing
neither himself nor others in his intense desire for
perfection. He was warmly interested in palitics
and his advice was sought by the National leaders
* during the crisis of the Civil war, while his influ-
ence with the people was of powerful assistance
to the government. He was never hampered by
fear or friendship, but was always guided by in-
flexible ideals of honor and patriotism. He pos-
sessed great magnetism of manner, was an accom-

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plished and fascinating conversationalist, and cos-
mopolitan and liberal in opinion. He traveled
widely in Europe and America, and in "The Life
of Samuel Bowles,*' by Geo. S. Merriam, are
given extracts from his brilliant letters. Besides
his splendid editorials Samuel Bowles displayed
his clear and vigorous English in several books.
He published "Our New West," "The Switzer-
land of America," "Across the Continent," etc.
His children were Samuel and Charles.

SAMUEL, the son of Samuel 7th, was born in Spring-
field, Mass., October 15, 1851, and was married
June 12, 1884, to Miss Elizabeth Hoar, who was
born November 25, 1854, and who was a daughter
of Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar of Conccrd,
Mass. Samuel was educated in the Springfield
schools and in Germany, attended Yale and took a
special course of two years there which ended in
1873. Amheibt College in 1879 conferred upen
him the degree of A. M. Upon the death of his
father he succeeded to the management of The
Republican, and has kept that great paper tTur-
ishing in all its former intellectnal vigi-r. His
opinions, there expressed, are reprinted in the
foremost dailies of the language. Criticil reviews
of American editors have accorded him a place
with the few whose \\'ide ::nd wise culture honors
and dignifies American journalism. The children
of Samuel are:

Samuel, b. July 31, 1885.
Sherman Hoar, b. April 24, 1890.

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CHARLES ALLEN, the son of Samuel 7th, was born
in New York City, December 19, 1861, and was
married in October, 1885, to Miss Nellie Harris,
darghter of J. B. Harris of Rutland, Vt. After
leaving the preparatory schools Charles Allen
attended Sheffield Scientific School for a year,
since which time ne has been engaged in some
branch of the paper business, and is now a dealer
in paper manufacturer's stock and supplies. His
children are Dorothy, Charles Allen, Jr., and
Chester Bliss.

Benjamin Franklin Bowles, the fifth child
of Samuel 6th, had two children:
Francis Tiffany, b. Oct. 7, 1858;
Lucia Gordon, b. Jul> 20, 1864; mar. Otto

Cursch.

FRANCIS TIFFANY BOWLES was born in Spring-
field, entered the Naval Academy in 1875, ^ind
was graduated with high honors in 1879. ^^
spent several years at the Royal Naval College
at Greenwich, England, and upon his return home
was appointed Secretary of the Advisory Board.
In 1886, while stationed at Norfolk, be built the
battleship Texas and the cruiser Raleigh. In 1895
he was transferred to the New York Navy Yard
\\ith the rank of Rear Admiral. On March 4,
1901, he was appointed Chief Constructor of the
Navy. He retired on October 26, 1906, to accept
the presidency of the Fore Riv^er Engine and Ship-
building Co. His reputation, acquired during 28
years of service in the navy, was brilliant. The

J^ THE HISTORY OF

President wrote to hiir.: '''Your services to the
navy -and to the nation have been notable, and I
desire to express my sincere appreciation ofthem.'*
The New York Tribune said:" He was a thorough
student of marine architecture, alert to the designs
of foreign nations, and yet of original ideas. Ad-
miral Bowles is a conscientious, high-minded and
sagacious man and the nation suffers by his re-
tirement." The press of the entire nation com-
mented in a similar vein of appreciation.
Admiral Bowles married Adelaide Hay Savage.
Their children are:

Thomas Savage, b. Nov., 1888';

Catherine Hay, b. Jan. 23, 1890.

The third child of Joshua and Mary Hart was:

RALPH HART BOWLES, who enlisted as a private
for the 8 month's service July 18, 1775, under
Captain Lemuel Trescott in Colonel Brewer's
regiment. Re-enlisted Jan. i, 1776, for 12 month's
service with same Captain in Col. Asa Whit-
ojmb's regiment. Appointed Ensign Jan. 1,1777.
In the regular commission line for 3 years' service
(or for the rest of the war), ist Ensign in Captain
Tuckerman's company of Col.Patterson'sJregiment
(later Colonel Vose's regiment.^ Appointed 2d
Lieut. Nov. 1777; commissioned Lieutenant Feb.
28, 1779. Served through the entire war. The
Catalogue of the Society of the Cincinnati says;
"Ralph Hart Bowles was present at Saratoga,

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Monmouth and Yorktovvn and commanded the first
company that entered New York on its evacuation
by the British in November, 1783. He was a
brave and efficient officer, and on leaving the army
in 1784 received the brevet of Captain. He was
an original member of the Society of the Cincin-
nati. He settled in Machias, lyie., in 1788, and
was its postmaster and town clerk at the time of
his death. He was a true patriot and honest man."
He had been a Justice of the Peace several times
and in 1788 he married Hannah, daughter of Rev.
Jcsiah Crocker, pastor of the First Church in
Taunton, Mass., a woman of great energy of char-
acter and much esteemed for her many virtues.
She died aged 82 years, July 10, 1848, in Ruxbury,
Mass. Her mother was the sister of General
David Cobb, and also of Sarah, wife of Robert
Trei,t Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The children of Ralph Hart and Han-
nah Crocker were:

Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, b. March 6,
1789: d. a bachelor, in 1849. ^^ ^^s a
prominent freemason.
Hannah Crocker; died in infancy.
Stephen Jones Bowles, b. July 7, 1793; died

A. arch 26, 1846. Lived in Springfield.
Leonard Crocker.

Wm.. Ralph Hart, mar. Philena Juteau. He
lived in Machias, Me., and some of his
descendants still live there.
Mary Jones Bowles, b. May 6, 1802; m. F. A.
Burrall of New York City; d. 1845. ^^^'
Burrall left two bons: Frederick A., who

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mar. Mary Lee, and Stephen J., whose
descendants live in England. Mrs. Ste-
phen J., through research in England,
established Bowles descent from Henry
II., whose daughter married Simon de
Mountfort, from whom there is a distinct
line of descent to Sarah Mountfort, whose
granddaughter Sarah married John Bowles
2d. Mrs. Burrall also indicates the cous-
sinship of The Apostle to Sir John Eliot,
and his kinship to the Earls of St. Ger-
mains.

STEPHEN JONES BOWLES, second son of Ralph
Hart and Hannah Crocker, married Elizabeth Wal-
lace, who bore him five children, viz.:

Elizabeth, married J. Wingate Thornton, an
eminent genealogist, who published his stud-
ies of the Bowles lineage in New England,
and whose daughter, Elizabeth T. Thornton,
lives in Lexington, Mass., and is possessed
of a wide knowledge of genealogy.
Mary, H., mar. Charles Pike and left children.
Hannah, mar. P. Wolfe, and left children.
Stephen Wallace.
Lucy, mar. T. Lyman.

STEPHENWALLACE BOWLES was born atMachias,
Me., Dec. 21, 1835, and graduated from Williams
College in 1856. He narried Oct. 11, 1859, Eliz-
abeth Belden at W. Springfield, Mass. He died
February 12, 1895, at Springfield, Mass. The
children of Stephen Wallace and Elizabeth were:
Elizabeth Belden, b. June 20, 1864.

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V

Stephen Wallace, b. April 4, 1866: mar. (i)
Mabel Otis Shertleff, Oct. 25, 1888, at
Springfield, Mass.; she died Oct. 6, 1890.
He married (2) Lucy Morris, at New York,
Feb. 1903. He had by Mabel Otis Shert-
leff, a son, Stephen Shertleff, b. Sept. 20,
1890.

John Eliot, b. April 9, 1868, at Boston.

Harr> Thornton, b. March 7, 1877, at Spring-
field, Mass. Yale 1899; Columbia 1903.

The third son of Ralph Hart Bowles was

LEONARD CROCKER BOWLES, born at Machias,
Me., Sept, 12, 1796. He came to Boston on a
packet ship in 181 3 and was apprenticed to a pub-
lishing house. He married Catherine Cushing
Lincoln, of Hingham, Mass., and who was the
granddaughter of Major-General Benjamin Lin-
coln, the famous Revolutionary General. Leonard
Crocker for many years edited *'The Unitarian
Magazine." He died in 187$, leaving children:

Mary, mar. Wm. Crosby, of Roxbury, Mass.

Catherine Leonard, died unmarried.

Martin Lincoln.

MARTIN LINCOLN BOWLES was born in Boston
Nov. I, 1832, and in 1857 married Frances M.
Darracott, the daughter of Mr. George Darracott,
a prominent Boston man of his day. Martin Lin-
coln was engaged iii the East Indian and later the
bagging and jute trade all his life. In 1887 he re-
n.oved to New York City, where he died Feb. 15,

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1904. He was a man highly respected by those
who knew him. His children were:

Ralph Darracott, b. April 2, 1859; d. unmar.

Nov. 10, 1902.
Katharine Lincoln, b. Aug. i, i86i; mar. in
1893 Durand Woodman of New York City,
and now residing there.
Robert Lincoln, b. June 14, 1865; unmarried;
resides at Hotel Longacre, New York City.
Robert Lincoln possesses a pedigree show-
ing the line of descent from Ldward III. and
Edward L to Hannah Crocker, wife of Major
Ralph Hart Bowles.

The third son of Joshua and Mary Hart
was
JOHN, who was a soldier in the Revolution, and who
was honorably discharged as a sergeant in May,
1780. He moved to Hartford and engaged in the
baking business. His wife beidama, a worthy,
piors vv'oman, died Jan. 19, 1846, aged 87 years,
at the home of her son Joseph in Newark, N. J.
John Bowies died Sept. 24, 1808, and left several
children, two of whom were:

Deidama, who married Philemon Canfield of

Hartford.
Joseph A. Bowles, of Newark, N. J. in 1846.

The youngest son of Joshua and Mary
Hart was:
WILLIAM, who was a sailmaKer by trade. In the first
expedition from Boston for the Northwest Coast

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and China trade he was gone eight years and re-
turned as m.ite of the ship. He afterwards made
several successful voyages as master, and acquired
a handsome property. He was a master mariner
with Captain Gray when tne Columbia river was
discovered May 7, 1792. In 1802 he sailed as
Captain of the new ship "Williarri and Mary."
In 1803 \^hile on the North-west coast in a harbor
in company with the ship "Boston/' Captain
Salter and the crew of the "Boston" were massa-
cred b) the natives and the ship set on fire, for
some affront Captain Salter had given the natives.
Captain Bowles had left the harbor and was going
out to sea, but seeing the ship "Boston" on fire
put back to render assistance. While standing on
his quarter-deck, having sailed his ship close to
the "Boston', in an iiitrepid endeav^T to succor
her. Captain Bow les received a poisoned arrow in
the back of his neck. He died soon after and had
an ocean grave. He left a widow and two child-
ren, William and Mary. William, a worthy, high-
minded man, died uf cholera in Cincinnati in 1835.
His sister Mary married Dr. Flagg --f Cincinnati.

A New England branch of the Ruxbury family
is that of
HENRY W. BOWLES, born at Hartford, Feb. 9, 181 s;
married at Northampton, Mass., in 1837, Mary A.
Lavake, who was born at Northampton, Mass.,
Aug. 18, 1818, and died in Hartford, Conn., June
24, 1897. Henry W. died at Windsor, Conn.,
May 10, 1852. His brother was Rev. Ralph H.
Bowles, whose widow Fannie A. lives at Hunting-

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ton, Conn., and a sister was Rebecca, who mar-
ried John Sloane. The children of Henry W.
and Mary were:

Mary L., b. Jan. 15, 1838, at Hartford; mar.

Mr, Chapin. Lives in West Haven, Conn.

Roslin W., b.Oct. 8, i84i,at Hartford, Conn.;

died at Norfolk, Va., Sept. 25, 1880.
C. A. Bowles, b. June 26, 1843. He is a

butcher in Hartford, Conn.
George F., b. Jan. 3, 1846, at Hartford. Ke

is an optician in New Orleans, La.
Henry W., b. July 14, 1850. He was a sailor
and was lost at sea Aug. 28, 1869.

ROSLIN W. BOWLES married Feb. 28, 1867, Ella R.
Baker, daughter of Wm. S. and Hannah P. Baker
of Boston, Mass. He served 3 years and 3 mos.
in the Union Army during the Civil War, and re
ceived captain's commissioi. for bravery on the
field from Gov. Andrews. His children were:
Julie R., b. in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 8,

1867; d. Dec. 13, 1869.
Ruth, b. in Somerville, Mass., July 24, 1S69;

d. July 24, 1869.
Adah N., b. in Norfolk, Va., April 23, 1877.
Adah N. lives in Boston Mass.

NATHAN BOWLES came from Richmond, N. H. in
1806 and settled in Livermore, Me., where he en-
gaged in farming. He had married Elizzie Bishcp
of Richmond, N. H. Nathan died Jan. 18, 1819,
and his wife June 8, 1864. The children of this

THfc BOWLES FAMILY 203

union were:

Luke C, b. Nov. 26, 1804, Jri Richmond, N.
H.; mar. Rebecca P. Ellis, b. at Hartrord,
Me., May 28, 1807, ^rid died in Liver-
rr.ore, Me., June 13, 1879. Luke C.
was a farmer and died in Livermore Sept.
24, 1882.
Harvey, blacksmith, died in Wisconsin.
Clarendon Bowles, wheelwright, who died in

Mass.
Nathan, who died in New Hampshire.
Sarah Bowles Dobbs, who lives in Harlem,
Mont.
LUKE C. BOWLES' children were:

Elizzie Bowles Curtis, b. July 12, 1831, at Liv-

ern.ore. Me. Lives in Mass.
Fred C, b. July 23, 1832, at Livermore, Me.;
d. Mar. 24, 1901. His wife was Lydia A.
Prince.
Esther, b. Dec. 8, 1833, ^^ Livermore; d, Nov.

10, 1858.
Sarah Bowles Hunt, b. July 15, 1837, at Liver-
more, Me.; d. Feb. 18, 1904, at Neponset,
Mass.
James P., b. Feb. 12, 1845, ^t Hartford, Me.;
He is a farmer and lives in Livermore, Me.
JAMES P. BOWLES, married Sarah Allen. His chil-
dren are:

Esther A., b. May 20, 1874; mar. Bernal C.
Phillips, who was born Feb. 18, 1872, at
Canton, Me. Their children are:

Eldred E. Phillips, b. June 2, 1896.
Burton J. Phillips, b. Feb. 7, 1898.

204 THE HISTORY OF

V

John E., b. Feb. 3, 1879; farmer at N. Liver-
more, Me.

Lillian Maud, b. Oct. 23, 1884; mar. Chessman
Turner a farmer at Livermore, Me. Their
son is Otto Chessman, b. Aug. 26, 1933.

WILLIAM PALMER BOWLES mar. Charlotte Price
Haskell. They lived in Poland, Me. Their sons:
A. Lincoln, b. Jan. 15, 1861, at Poland, Me.;

mar. Sept. 27, 1898, Sadie M. Brown; d. Aug.

30, 1903. A Lincoln was a compositor.
Frank H. Bowles of Boston.

STEPHEN BOWLES. His son Charles Henry, born
in Holderness, Mass., March 3, 1831. A child,
Georgia Hare, born in Lakeport, iN H., May 22,
i860, and her son is Charles Hare, born Sept. 11,
1903 at Boston.

HARVEY EDWARD BOWLES. His brother. Dr. R.
C^. Bowles, went South; three sisters: Permelia,
who married Mr. Curtis, Ma'-y a Mr. Coles, and
Sarah a Mr. Chamberlain. Also other brothers.
DR. R. C. BOWLES had seven children: Per-
melia, b, 1850, mar. D. G. Baynes of Danville,
Va.; J. R. Bov. les, b. 1856, farming in Va.; Bent-
ley Bowles, b. 1859, in tobacco business in Dar-
ling, N.C.; Ella iViay, mar. F. T. Chism of Dan-
ville, Va. For Genealogy of Dr. Harvey Edward
Bowles see ''Biographical, Genealogical and De-
scriptive History of So. New Jersey, vol. IL, p.
256." The children of Harvey Edward .vere:
Edward Lyvere, b. at Cabotville, nuw Chico-
pee, Mass., April 29, 1846.

THE BOWLES FAMILY aos

Frederick Theodore.

Frank Isaiah.

Carrie Grace, who married a Mr. Whitmore.
She died in Hammonton, N. J., leaving
a daughter, Lutie West Whitmore.

EDWARD LYVERE BOWLES was educated in the
public schools and came to Philadelphia, where he
entered the employment of Peter Niskey, corner
Ridge and Girard aves. He enlisted in the Fifth
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company M., Sept. 1864,
and discharged at Richmond, Va., May 1865. In
Hammonton, N.J., until 1867; then went to Conn.
In New Britain until 1869; was salesman for J.B.
Savage for some years; traveled for the Atwater
M'f'g Co.; in 1872 lived in Camden, Vinelaiid,
Newfield, Buffalo, Phila. and Hartford. Now
lives in Jersey City and engaged in business in
N. Y. City. He married Oct. i, 1868, at Jersey
City, Sarah Anna Twiss, of Southington, Conn.
Their children are:

Fred Lyvere, b. Oct. i, 1869, ^t New Britain,
Conn. He is an artistic wood engraver.
He m.arried in 1892 Minnie Scott of Phila.

Minnie Adella, b. Aug. 3, 1871, at Southing-
ton, Conn.; d. Dec. 10, 1884, in Phila.

FREDERICK THEODORE BOWLES lives in Elmira,
N. Y. He has three children:

Shirley, a dentist lives in Washington, D.C.
Adella, a widow, lives in Buffahj, N. Y
Claude, a dentist, lives in Elmira, N. Y.
FRANK ISAIAH BOWLES lives in Detroit, Mich.
He has two sons:

206 THE HISTORY OF

Arthur, a physician^

Harvey Ward, a civil engineer.

DR. F. J. BOWLES, 121 W. 93d St., N.Y. City, came
from Neva Scotia in 1883, ^rid has practiced medi-
cine since 1884 in N. Y. City. A brother, L. V.
Bowles, lives in Waterville, King's County, N.S.

N. A. BOWLES, of Brockton, Mass., came from Kent-
ville^ Nova Scotia, about 1884. ^is father, John
H. Bowles, lives in King's Co., Nova Scotia.

JOSEPH B. BOWLES, the publisher, is descended
from grandparents who came from Belfast, Ire.,
dying soon after arrival in Ontario, Can. Rela-
tives of Joseph B. Bowles live in Ontario and in
various Eastern States. Joseph B. lives in Chica-
go, and his newspaper publications extend over
the United States and Canada.

P. E. BOWLES, President of the American National
Bank of San Francisco, Cal. His father, born in
Quebec, died aged 47, in i860; his mother, born
in Sheffield, Eng., died aged 52, both in California.
The brother and sister of P. E. Bowles are dead,
and he has no living relatives.

JOHN BOWLES, born at Fairford, Gloucestershire,
Eng., Nov. 6, 1849, ^"^^s the son of Thomas and
Mary Ann Miller of Fairford. John Bowles is a
contractor and builder in Albion, Orleans County,
N. Y. He n arried Sept. 24, 1870, Elizabeth

THE BOWLES FAMILY »7

Soper Webber, of Torquay, Devonshire, Eng.
Their children were:

Frederick John, b. Mar. 26, 1872; d. Sept. 5,

1872.
Frederick Charles, b. June 18, 1877; d. Feb.

13, 1881.
Nellie May, b. Mar. 8, 1875. Teacher in

Rochester, N. Y.
Ethel Daisy, b. Dec. 9, 1879. Teacher at

Frankfort, N. Y.

CHARLES BOWLES, born at Cawley, Oxfordshire,
England in 1800* He afterwards moved to Minster
LoveM. His children were:

William, who went to Africa.

Joseph, b. Feb. 13, 1843; came to America in
1868; d. in Toronto, Can., Oct. 16, 1891.

George, living in England.

Charles.
JOSEPH had ten children; three are dead and the re-
maining seven are:

Joseph, b. Mar. 13, 1866;

James, b. June 4, 1868;

George, b. May 15, 1875;

Elizabeth, b. Oct. 19, 1877;

Charles, b. Mar. 27, 1880;

William, b. Sept. 28, 1882;
James is married and has six children. Elizabeth
is married and has two children. All of Joseph
Bowles' children live in Cleveland, Ohio.

JOHN C. BOWLES, of Omaha, Neb., born Dec. 20,
1848, in Wexford County, Ire.; mar. Annie Doug-

208 THE HISTORY OF

lass of Wicklow County, Ire. The father of John
C. .vas Thomas Bowles, born in Wexford County
about 1824, who died in Cleator, Cumberland,
England, about 1874. The wife of Thomas was
born in Wexrord about 1827, and came to England
with Thomas in 1851, where she died in 1867, at
Cleator, Cumberland. Some of the relatives of
Thomas came to America in the latter part of the
1 8th century. The children of Thomas were;
Maggie, who is living in England; Lizzie, Nellie,
Bridget, living at Cleator, Cumberland, Eng.;
Mary, (dead); John C* John C. is a blacksmith
in Omaha, Neb. His children are Mary Ann,
Thomas, Julia, Maggie, Michael, John, Nellie,
William, and Kate.

HENRY BOWLES, born 1859 In Glandree, Tulla
Parish, Clare County, Ire. The father of Henry
was John Bowles, whose brother James was par-
ish priest of Tulla for many years. The sisters
of John were Bridget end Ellen. John's children
were Henry, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; John (dead);
James and Patrick, of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia;
Ambrose, who came to America; Mary, in Aus-
tralia; Margaret, in the homestead in Glandree,
Clare County, Ireland.

WILLIAM BOWLES, born in Potosi, Wisconsin, Mar.
22, 1858; died Nov. 23, 1902, at La Crosse, Wis.
His widow, Mrs. Wm. Bowles, now resides there
with the following children, all born in La Crosse:
Kathryne, b. Dec. 25, 1883; Ella, b. Nov. 28,
1885; Ida, b. Mardh23, 1888; Grace, b. Marehi8,

THE BOWLES FAMILY 209

1900; Henry and Mary, b. Sept. 19, 1902.
Connections of this family are Robert Bowles of
California; John Bowles of Michigan; Fannie
Bowles Ohara of Davenport, Iowa.

WILLIAM S. BOWLES, born March 5, 1832, in French
Creek, Chatauqua County, N. Y.; married Eliza-
beth. He is a painter residing in Rockford, Ills.
His son, Willard A., is married and lives in Rock-
ford, Ills. A married brother of William lives in
Rockford; another married brother, born 1852, in
Galena, Ills., lives in Chicago. There are 22
nephews and nieces of Wm. S. living in Rockford
and Chicago.

LINEAGE
PREPARED BY ANN BOWLES CALLOWAY.

A widow living about 1730 in Branbrook, Kent,

England, had four sons: Thomas, Richard, Robert and

Josiah.

THOMAS married Sarah Bonman. They had three
sons: Thomas, b. 1760, Richard and Robert, and
two daughters, Sarah (a twin with Thomas), and
Mary. The eldest son

THOMAS, married Ann Shirley in 1784 and died in
1800. Their eight children were Thomas, William,
John, Richard, Robert and Mary, Ann (a twin
with John), Sarah (a twin with Mary). Ann and
Sarah died infants.

Thomas, b. 1794, mar. Ann Harland, of Rip-

210 THE HISTORY OF

ley, Surrey, Eng.; d. in 1856 leaving one
daughter who married Harry Walls, of Lon-
don, and died without children.
Sarah (twin with Thomas) mar. Robert Col-
gate and came to New York. They had three
sons: Robert, Jarr.es and Bowles, who were
the founders of the soap and perfumery firm
of Colgate & Co.
WILLIAM, second son cf Thomas and Ann Shir-
ley, was born May 22, 1786; mar. Mary Jasper,
of Brighton, Sussex, Eng.; came to America in
1822; died in Kentucky (Falmouth?) in April,
1872. His two sons were Frederick and Alfred.
His daughter married Samuel Johnstone.
JOHN, third son of Thomas and Ann Shirley, was
born March 23, 1788; married Mrs. Crispe,
widow of Wm. Crispe. He can.e to America in
the Spring of 1822, and settled near Harrison,
O., where he died April 7, 1839, without issue.
RICHARD, fourth son of Thomas and Ann Shir-
ley, was born Dec. 13, 1789; married Mrs. Ned-
hurst, of Shoreham, Eng.; died at Maidstone,
Kent, Eng., Sept. 25, 1857. They had two
sons: Fred, who died in New Zealand, and Rob-
ert, who died in England, and .1 daughter Ann
who married Samuel Jxve, of Shoreham Castle.
All died without issue.
ROBERT, fifth son of Thomas and Ann Shirley, was
born June i, 1792; married Merc/ Boots, daughter
of Thomas B.' ots, of Sussex, Eng., on Nov. 30,
1816. Robert emigrated to America in the spring
of 1822, settling on a farm near Harrison, Ohio.
His \\ ife Mercy died in the spring of 1837, having

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borne two sons: the elder, John Shirley, dying in
infancy, and Robert, the second son, of whom
presently. Robert married (2) Mrs. Ann Clough
in Christ Church, London, and returned to Amer-
ica. He died Oct. 12, 1862; his wife Ann died
April 16, 1881. By Ann Robert had four children:
John Shirley, Samuel Pegg, Ada and Anna.
MARY, sixth child of Thomas and Ann Shirley,
was born May 12, 1795. She married and had
two sons.

The second child of Robert and Mercy was
ROBERT, born in England Oct. 30, 1818. He came
to America in the spring of 1822, and settled at
Clarke Hill, Ind., about 1840. He married first
Genay Butler, and secondly Mrs Loe. He died
Feb. 5, 1888. His first wife bore him Electra,
Delia, Tiffinay, Richard, John and Edwin. By the
second marriage lea and Mary Sewell.
ELECTRA married Dr. Motter; has three children.
Living in Lafayette, Ind.

DELIA married Mr. McUole; has six children.
Living in Clarke's Hill, Ind.
TIFFINAY has two living children.
RICHARD has eight sons, and daughters. Liv-
ing in Frankfort, Ind.

JOHN has a family and is living in Kansas.
EDWIN resides at Clarke's Hill, Ind.
ICA, child of second marriage, died unmarried.
MARY S. married Mr. Guy Drew, and lives at
Grand Rapids, Mich.

The third son of Robert was
JOHN SHIRLEY, born March 24, 1839, at Harrison,

212 THE HISTORY OF

Ohio. He married Lizzie I. Bunnell, and resides
at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, S. A. They have three
children:

Sam Clark, born Nov. 3, 1867, who is married,

with children and lives in Portland, Ore.
Sinica Bunnell, born Jan. 20, 1870; he is

married with children at Preston, Ohio.
Martha, born May 10, 1872; married Richard
Sortman; she has a family, one son Francis.
Lives in Hamilton, Ohio.

The fourth child of Robert and Mercy was
SAMUEL PEGG, born Dec. 29, 1840; married Fannie
E. Bonham April 27, 1865, and lives in Toledo, O.
He has one daughter, Fannie Bonham, born April
27, 1866, who married Everett Meyhells, and lives
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The fifth child of Robert and Mercy was
ADA, born March 29, 1842; died Dec. 27, 1847.

The sixth child of Robert and Mercy was
ANNA, born Feb. 8, 1845, ^t Harrison, Ohio; married

Thomas Bond Calloway on Jan. 31, 1855. Resides

in Hom.e City, Ohio. Her four children were:

Samuel Bond, Robert Bowles, Arthur William and

Walter Bowles Calloway.

SAMUEL BOND CALLOWAY, born March 2^,
1868; married Sadie Duncan. Their two child-
ren: Ada, b. Oct. 18, 1893, and Gertrude, b.
April I, 1897. Reside in Seattle, Wash.

ROBERT BOWLES CALLOWAY, born Sept. 7,
1869; died July 17, 1872.

ARTHUR WILLIAM CALLOWAY, born April 2,

THE BOWLES FAMILY 3l|

1872, at Harrison, Ohio; married to Daisy Bell
Sinks Nov. 19, 1896, who died Feb. 5, 1898.
He married, secondly, Charlotte Lytle, May 7,
1904. He is a physician in Asheville, N. C.
WALTER BOWLES was born in Harrison, O.,
Dec. 28, 1873; married Wilma Shine in Home
City, O., Oct. 5, 1903. Lives in Cincinnati.

The second son
of Thomas and Sarah was
RICHARD, who married Miss Dendy and had two
sons, Richard and John Dendy, and a daughter
Elizabeth.

RICHARD mar.MiSbDair; isburied in the Baptist
graveyard near New Haven, O. ile left four
children: Richard, Emily, Ellen and Eliza.
RICHARD has a son Horace and a daughter
Lizzie who married Mr. Cheatham. All
live in Harrison, Ohio.

The second son of Richard and Miss Dendy was
DR. JOHN DENDY BOWLES; came to Harrison, O.,
about 1838. He married Pricilla Crispe, step-
daughter of John Bowles. They are both dead,
leaving the following children:

HARRY, who married Jennie Simonson.
They have one son, Charles, who married
Miss Burk. Live in Harrison, Ohio.
JOHN, who is dead.
ELIZABETH, lives in Harrison, Ohio.
FRANK, married Miss Garside, who died,
leaving one son, Walter. Frank married
secondly a Kentucky lady. Frank is a

214 THE HISTORY OF

banker and lives in Harrison, Ohio.
DR. THOMAS, married Miss Sleet. Their
daughters are Mrs. McCafferty and Florence.
Live in Harrison, Ohio.

The fourth child of Thomas and Sarah was
ROBERT, who married but left no issue.

The fifth child of Thomas and Sarah was
MARY, who married William Bonman and had a large
family.

NOTE. The line of descent is often con-
fused by misspelled names, typographi-
cal errors, etc. A more serious error is
that on page 212, where the mis-print
states that Samuel Pegg, Ada, and Anna
were children of Mercy, first wife of Rob-
ert. The corrected statement is: By
Mercy Robert had two children: John
Shirley (died an infant), and Robert.
By Ann Robert had four children: John
Shirley, Samuel Pegg, Ada and Anna.

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216 THE HISTORY OF

1fi(

THE BOWLES FAMILY 117

2i8 THE HISTORY OF

^be JSowleses.

The warrior Bowles of Normandy clasped on the

casque of steel,
And sailed with fierce Duke William 'till Senlac

touched the keel.
He helped to break the heroes who had formed the

Saxon ring
Around the knightly Harold, whose fall made William

king.

With lance in rest at Agincourt an English charge they

led.
And mixed their blood with honor in the line of English

dead.
They sailed across the throbbing wave to rush upon

Cadiz
Beside the knightly Raleigh, where deathless glory is.

At Dunkirk with the Ironsides they broke the Spanish

spears
And crushed the despot Alva's sword, all wet with

blood and tears.
They starved at Londonderry and charged at Marslon

Moor,
And stern and grim they stood in ranks at Whitehall

Palace door.

In proud Cathedral pulpits or upon the simple sod.
They braved the might of tyrants to lead )thers unto
God.

THE BOWLtS FAMILY 219

And turned toward the wilderness across Atlantic's

foam
And in the forest solitude they cleared a freeman's

hnme.

And when the Revolution's star gleamed forth in crim-
son light,

They joined the stream of flags and guns that hurried
to the fight.

And one, a wild adventurer, with strong and daring
deeds

Didst guide the stormy destiny of two strong and sav-
age breeds.

And when the trembling trumpet thrilled that roused
our native land,

They heard the call of country and in hostile ranks
they stand.

They marched with Stonewall Jackson, or with Sher-
man to the sea.

Some fought and died with the conquering Grant, some
with the stainless Lee.

For thirty generations they have worked and won and

died,
The obstacles of nature and the tyrant's might defied.
Their free, defiant motto from the conquering struggle's

smother,
They flung in time of triumph: "As to you, so to

another."

They're numbered with the men of peace, the warlike
of the A^-ave,

220 THE HISTORY OF

They gird and guide the fleets that tight the battles of

the brave.
And nations watch their brilliant pens flame through

the printer's press
To teach the thinking millions how to win the day of

stress.
And far in future centuries the stony, stern way runs,
The way of faith and glory, the way for Bowles' sons.

Thomas M. Parquhar.

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Continued from Page 140.

The eldest child of Lyddall and Elizabeth
Smith was
SARAH ADELINE, who married on March 10, 1825,
Dr. James Russell Hawkins of Spottsylvania co.,
Va. Dr. Hawkins settled in Boone county, Ky.,
in 1840, having moved from Henrico county, Va.
In March, 1846, at a Whig convention, he was,
without his knowledge, nominated to represent
the Senatorial district composed of Boone, Gallatin
and Carroll counties. This district had previous
to that time been always represented by a Demo?
crat, and Dr. Hawkins' opponent was believed
to be the most influential Democrat in the district,
yet, after an animated contest, Dr. Hawkins was
triumphantly elected. At the conclusion of his
term he was elected Secretary of the Legislsture,
which position he held for a quarter of a century.
Since that time viS^Oi there has been scarcely a
statesman of prominence in Kentucky with whom
he was not intimately acquainted, bound to many

222 THE HISTORY OF

by irrefragable ties of friendship. He was a man
of wide culture, genial and brilliant, and retained
in a wonderful degree his intellectual and physical
faculties until a few days preceding his death.
The eleven children of Sarah Adeline Bowles and
Dr. James Russell Hawkins were:

A son, born Feb. 25, 1826, who lived 2 weeks.
Joseph Lyddall, b. Jan. 19, 1827; d. unmarried

April 15, 1897.
Bettie Ann, b. Nov. 22, 1828; mar. F. M. Ste-
pheiiS of Boone City, April 6, 1847, and
had the follow ing eleven children: James
Rnssell, Richr.rd H. and Ben C. (twins),
Sarah L., Mary E., Harry C, Francis M.,
William Bo*vles, Ernest L., Joseph L. and
Wallace. Bettie Ann died May 12, 1904.
Mary Eliza, b. Feb. 13, 1831; married Harry vV.
Cunningham July 27, 1852. They had no
children. Mr. Cunningham d. June 30, 1905.
Sarah Adeline, b. Aug. 22, 1833; d. in infancy.
James Russell, b. Aug. 6, 1835; married Mary
F. Davis of Louisville, Ky., April 5, 1866.
Their six children were iV^ary Eliza, Addie
L., Mildred J., Cordelia M., Gad Davis
and Joseph Sangfurd. Cordelia and Mildred
died in infancy. James Russell died Sep.
28, 1900.
Julia L., b. Oct 24, 1837; married James Cal-
vert of Boone Co., Ky., May 21, 1861; her
children were: Susan Virginia; James Haw-
kins, d. July I, 1900; Elizabeth Agnes, d.
April 9, 1900. James Calvert died Dec. 13,
1890.

THE BOWL-ES FAMILY 223

Susan Virginia, b. Sep. 18, 1840; d. Sep. 8, 1850.
Mildred J., b. July 28, 1843.
William Bowies, b. Feb. 4, 1846; married Lizzie
Hawkins of Lincoln co., Ky., Sep. 9, 1873;
his six children were: Hamilton Pope, Sadie
A., Rosa Virginia; a boy whodied ininfancy;
Lizzie Bowles and William Russell. Ham-
ilton Pope and Virginia are dead.
Hamilton Pope, b. Feb. 18, 1851; married June
26, 1884, Lucy Robinson of Greenville,
Miss., where Hamilton Pope was then in
business.
Dr. James Russell Hawkins was born Jan. 30,
1805; died Feb. i, 1897. Of the 11 children of Sarah
Adeline Bowies and J. R. Haw kins the first seven were
born in Virginia, the last four in Boone county, Ky .

Mamie E. Hawkins was born May 24, 1867, and
married Jan. i, 1889, H. Elbert Garrett, who was born
May 10, 1866, and died June 17, 1899. Mamie E.
married (2), Feb. 17, 1898, J. S. R. Robertbon, w^ho
was born Dec. 24, 1862. The son by the first mnr-
riage, H. Elbert Garrett, was born Oct. 13, 1889.

The third son of Lyddall and Elizabeth was

WILLIAM BACON BOWLES, who married Susan W.
Grubbs of Hanover count/, Va., daughter of An-
derson Grubbs and Susan Winston. William
Bacon moved to Kentucky in 1836, dying there
two years later. His widow, Susan W. Bowies,
married a Mr. King. A daughter of William Bacon
and Susan was Susan Virginia Bowles^ who mar-

224 THE HISTORY OF

ried H. B. Tompkins. A daughter of H. B. Tomp-
kins and Susan Virginia Bowles was Susan Her-
bert Tompkins, born April 9, 1875, i^ Henrico
county, near Richmond.

The oldest daughter of Lyddall and Sally
Waller Price was
MARY WALLER BOWLES, who married June 17,
1851, in Franklin co., Ky., Henry Ramey of Car-
roll county, Ky. Henry Ramey was born April
5, 1817; died Sept. 22, 1903. They moved to
Louisville during the Civil war. Their children
were:

Sally Waller Ramey, b. April 25, 1852.

Bowles Ramey, Sept. 22, 1853.

James Ramey, b. Dec. 16, 1855; d. Aug. 25,

1871.
Mattie Ramey, b. Aug i, 1857; d. July i, i860.
Eliza Ramey, b. Feb. 18, 1S60.
Henry Smith Ramey, b. Oct. 3, 1863.
Richard Ramey, b. Jan. 20, 1865; married Rosa

Green in Louisville, Ky., June 24, 1890.
William Ramey, b. Jan. 19, 1868; d. Sep. 11, 1868.
Sally Ramey married, Nov. 16, 1876, in Louis-
ville, Ky., John William Wallace, who was born Mar.
18, 1851. Their children were:

Nina Bowles, b. Mar. 31, 1878; d. April i, 1878.
Sally Ray, b. July 26, 1889.

The third child of Lyddall and Sally
Waller Price was
ELIZA PRICE BOWLES, who married Aug. 5, 1865,
• John Q. A. Stephens, of Boone county, Ky. Her

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«

children are:

Mary Stephens, b. Oct. 30, 1867.
Lida P. Stephens, b. Oct 17, 1870.
Mary Stephens married P. G. Leming of Urbana, III.,
on Feb. 14. 1886, and died June 2, 1895, leaving
four children:

Lida Leming, b. Sept 29, 1887
Willa Leming, b. June 9, 1889
Bonnie Leming, Feb. 2, 1891
John Leming, b. March 2, 1893
Lida P. Stephens married Morgan Creamer of Clinton
county, M'j., Nov. 4, 1891. Her children are:
John A. Creamer, b. Dec. 12, 1892
Mary S. Creamer, b. Nov. 24, 1894
Lucy L. Creamer, b. April 20, 1899
Lida Mildred Creamer, April 2, 1901

A SON OF IHOMAS 2d

AND BROTHER OF THOMAS PHILIP BOWLES

Married Miss Woodson, by whom he had three children:
Thomas, Patsie, and Millie Bowles.
THOMAS BOWLES married Lucy England, by whom
he had five children:
Mary Strotton, m. Lyddall Bowles of Hanover

county; died without issue.
John, died in infancy.
Nancy Batts.
Martha Millner, m. Rev. Eli Ball, a Baptist

preacher of Vermont; died without issue.
Miildred Malvina, m. Lorenzo Ambrose, a large
railroad contractor, of Maryland. They
had one bon: John Thomas Ambrose, who

226 THE HISTORY OF

died in infancy.

NANCY BATTS BOWLES married Robert Harvey, a
railroad contractor, of Canada. Their children:

Mary Ellen Harvey.
William Graeme Harvey.
Robert Harvey.
Mary Ellen married Anthony W. Willson of Amelia
rounty, Va,, and by him had two children:

Harvey Willson, m. Fanny Elizabeth Sletor of
Easton, Pa. Their one daughter was Mary
Sletor Willson.
Nannie Webster Willson, died in infancy.

WILLIAM GRAEME HARVEY married Ellen Virginia

Taylor of Richmond, Va. Their nine children were:

William Graeme Harvey, Jr., m. Ruby B>

deker of Richmond, Va,; diedAithoutissue,
Lizzie Lee Harvey
Albert Stanfield Harvey, m Janet Needham of

Richmond, Va. Their six children were:

Alice, Walter, Arthur vN illson, Janet, Ellen

Virginia, and Robert.
Walter Harvey, died in youth.
Goldie Harvey, m. Benjamin Winston Grubbs

of Richmond, Va. They had one child:

Lewis Harvey Grubbs.
Virginia Harvey, m. Alfred Benson of Richmond,

Va. Their four children were: Virginia

Graeme, Alfred, Jr., Geo. Harvey, Ailine.
Dorsey Harvey, died in infancy.
Mary Pegram Harvey.
Robert Bruce Harvey.

THE BOWLtS FAMILY 227

The son of Nancy Batts Bowies and
Robert Harvey,
ROBERT HARVEY, JR., married Mrs. Elizabeth M.
T/ree, who was Miss Elizabeth M. Slater of James
City county, Va., by whom he had three children:
Robert Hunter Harvey, m. Elizabeth Bennett
of London, Eng., by whom he had two chil-
dren: Robert Huiiter, Jr., Charles Tyree.
Urban Harvey, m. Louise Mackay of Canada.

Thev had no children.
Daisy Harvey, m, George Waterman of Con-
necticut. They had no children.

ROBERT BOWLES, who served in the Dunmore
War of 1774, had a brother who moved from Han-
over county, Va., to Goochland county, Va. A
son Matthew was a tobacco grower near Peters-
burg about 1810. He had sons: John, George,
William, Thomas and Mark. It is believed that
William, Thomr.s and Mark were the three brothers
of that name who went to North Carolina before
the Civil War. Mark, who was a banker and to
bacconist of Persori county, N. C, never married.
William went from Person county to the western
part of N. C.

THOMAS BOWLES lived in Person county until after
the war and moved to Granville county. He mar-
ried Miss Sarah Suit, a cousin of Governor Hy-
cock of North Carolina. One of his sons married
Miss Mary Gates, of Orange county, daughter of
Solomon Gates. Soon after his marriage he re-
moved to Durham, N. C, and engnged in the to-

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bacco business, housebuilding and contracting. In
1876 he moved to Winston. In 1884 moved back
to Roanoke, Va. His wife, Mary Gates Bowles,
died in 1892. He returned to Greensboro, N. G.,
and married Mary Lindley, mother of J. V. Lind-
ley, proprietor cf the Pomona Nursery. He died
in 19CXD, having had by Mary Gates eight children:
J, A. Bowles, Anna, Helen, Emma, Ella, Ada,
Josephine, Eva.

Anna married N. G. Workman, real estate dealer in
Greensboro, N. G.

Helen married T. F. Ma.ngam, General Manager of the
Standard Oil Go., Greensboro, N. G.

Emma married W. W. Workman, furniture dealer, of
Norfolk, Va.

Ella married G.W.Anderson, ins. agent of Norfolk, Va.

Ada married J. A.Fyle, shoe manufacturer High Pond.

Josephine married Henry Brewer, railroad conductor,
of Roanoke, Va.

Eva married James Gald'.\ell, depot agent of Southern
Railroad at Durham, N. G.

REV. J. A. BOW LES, the only son, attended the pri-
vate schools cf Durham, \\ here he was born April
26, 1858. He graduated in 1879 ^^^^ the Winston
High School. He studied medicine under Dr.
Roan, but entered Trinity Gollege and graduated
A.B. in 1883, admitted to trial in the Western M.
E. Gonference, Nov. 27, 1883. He was stationed
in many places in N. G., and was very efficient
and popular. In 1905 he was at Walnut Street M.
E. Ghurch, Greensboro N. G., Secretary of
Western N. G. Ghurch Extension Board, and Sec-
retary of Greensboro Gonference. He married

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Mary Boren, at Guilford College, April 25, 1888.
She was of the wealthy North Carolina family of
that name, her father being the founder of thfe
Pomona Terra Cotta Works, now owned by his
sons. The children of Rev. J. A. Bowles and
Mary Boren are: Arthur, Hargrave, Mary, Eva,
David, Joseph, Wade, Annie May.

Connected with the Virginia parent stock

was

JOHN BOWLES, whose wife was Clarissa, and who
came from Virginia and settled in Iredell county,
N. C , about 1820. It is a tradition that he was a
brother of William, Thomas and Mark. A son

JOHN, was born January 27, 1830, in Iredell co., N.
C; married Eliza Caroline daughter of Wm. An-
drew and Nellie Moore, of Caldwell county. Eliza
Caroline was born Jan. 10, 1850; died May 7, 1892.
John Bowles is a farmer in Caldwell county, N.C.
John and Eliza Caroline had seven children:

JAMES A., b. in Caldwell county, Jan. i, 1855. Dead.

WILLIAM A., born in Caldwell co., June 15, 1856. A
printer in Chester, S. C. He married Lily Jones;
has nine living children, and one child dead.

MARCUS L., b. in CakJwell co., March 7, 1858. A
printer in St. Augustine, Fla. Marcus L. married
Carrie Butler; has five children.

JACOB A*, b. in Caldwell co., Feb. 13, i860. Jacob
A. is a merchant of Hickory, N. C. He married
Minnie E. White; has one child living and one dead.

RUFUS P., b. in Caldwell co. May 29, 1^2. He is a
lawyer in Durant, Indian T>erritory . He is mar-
^ried^nd has one child by his wife H«tti€.

230 THE HISTORY OF

EMILY J., b. in Caldwell co., Oct. lo, 1864; died
Nov. 5, 1901.

JULIA A., b. in Calduell co., July 23, 1867; married
R. W. Stevenson and has nine living children and
one dead. Julia A. lives in Hickory, N. C.

A son of Thomas Franklin Bowles who
lived at Hanover Court House in
the early 19th century was
PETER BOWLES, b. at Hanover C. H., Va., his
father and mother dying when Peter was about
five years old. Peter is a painter and grainer liv-
ing in Darlington, S.C. He married Dec. 22, 1859,
at Society Hill, S. C, Joanna Pierce Ingraham.
Their eight children were:

Thomas Franklin, b. at Society Hill, Sept. 9,

i860; d. Oct. 28, 1866.
Wm. Murray, b. at Society Hill, March 21,

1862; d. Oct. 4, 1866.
Charles Pierce, b. at Society Hill, March 4,

1865; d. May 28, 1867.
Edward Bevill, b. in New York City, Dec.

8, 1868.
Peter Ingraham, b. in Jersey City, April 29,

1871; d. Feb. 4, 1880.
Robert Lowery, b. in Jersey City, Dec. 30,

1874; d. Jan. I, 1880.
Harry Williams, b. in Jersey City, Jan. i,

1873.
Joanna Elizabeth, b. March 23, 1881.
EDWARD BEVILL BOWLES is a painter, living at
lOi Armstrong ave., Jersey City. He married
December 22, 1886, Mary Francis Meyerhoff of

THE BOWLfcS FAMILY 231

Jersey City. Their children were:

Harry Williams, b. in Jersey City, June 13,

1890; d. April 16, 1891.
Joanna Elizabeth, b. in Jersey City, Dec.

25, 1891.

Marie Olive, b. in Darlington, S. C, April 3,

1894; d. Oct. 23, 1894.
Grace Louise, b. in Jersey City, Sept. 6, 1896,
William Calvin, h. March 21, 1898.
Clarence Edward and Charles (twins) b, Jan.

26, 1900. Charles died.
Mary, b. Nov. 16, 1902.

HARRY WILLIAMS BOWLES is a painter, living in
Darlington, S. C, He married in Darlington, Mar.
15, 1892, Leila Vaughn. Their children were:
Estelle Vaughn, b. in Darlington, Jan. 10, 1894
Peter, b. in Jersey City, Nov. 10, 1896.
Leila Ingraham, b. Sept. 11, 1900; d. July
18, 1902.
JOANNA ELIZABETH, married Haynes Lennon
Baldwin April 12, 1899, at Charleston, S. C, and
lives at 40 and 42 Market St., Charleston, S. C.

JOHN BOWLES, a Revolutionary sol-
dier, who lived in Hanover county,
Va., in 1802, went to Middle Tenn-
essee, with his three brothers, be-
fore 1810.
There is a tradition that the party of Virginians
included the Wallace, Bassett, Shepherd, Conway and
Wheeler families. There was a Mr. Cocke and a Mr.
Whitlow in the party albo. They separated at a fork
on the Tennessee river, one party, including the three

232 THE HISTORY OF

brothers of John, going to Alabama. The other party
including John's family, remained in Tennessee until
about 1820, when John went with his son-in-law, Mr.
Williams, to Missouri. The youngest daughter had
married Mr. Williams, and her son Thomas afterwards
became very wealthy, and lived at Honey Grove,
Fannin county, Texas, where he died about 1886.
dohn Bowles, who went to Missouri, had four sons and
at least four daughters. These sons and daughters
had all been born in Virginia and John and William,
the two oldest boys, had married there. Adeline, the
oldest girl, married a Mr Cocke in Virginia. John, the
oldest son, had married in Virginia, about 1799, his
wife being named Fanny. John Bowles was in the
fighting with the Indians in Tennessee during the
Creek and British War. He was at Tallapoosa Bend,
was wounded at the battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814,
He went with the Tennessee Volunteers under Jackson
to New Orleans, and was mortally wounded in the
battle. John Bowles and his wife Fanny had five
daughters and four sons. The sons were: William,
John, Joseph and another who went to Alabama. It is
thought also that one lived in Mississippi.

The second son of John and Fanny
was
JOHN BOWLES, who came with his father and
grandfather to Tennessee, was born in Virginia
February 13, 1802. He was a child when brought
to Middle Tennessee, where he remained until he
was about 20 years old, when he went to Missis-
sippi. He married there Miss Millie Caroline
Pate, who was born Sept. 28, 1808. They lived
in Itwambe county. Miss., until 1848. They had

THE BOWLES FAMILY 233

thirteen children, all born, and five of them married
in Itwambe county. They moved to Bell county,
Texas, in the winter of 1848. They moved to Uvalde
county in 1854, and their courage and skill in Indian
warfare made them renowned all along the frontier.
Many prints cf the time mention the prowess of the
Bowles family, and SowelTs "Texas Indian Fights'*
gives an interesting account of some of their fights,
from which the following remarkable incidents are
taken: "The Bovv les family were bold and fearless
men, and aided greatly in exterminating the hostile
Indians. John Bowles first settled on the Lampasse
river in Bell county, fuur miles from Beltcn. John
Bowles helped to organize Beil county in 1851. He
was born in Virginia; his father being killed at New
Orleans, from two bullet wounds. John Bowles came
to Uvalde county in 1855 and settled on the Sabine
river in the Patterson settlement, six miles belov the
present Sabinal station. This place was very exposed
to Indian raids, and they v\ere numerous and hostile.
John Buwles had brought many fine horses to the coun-
ty, and in 1856 had established a r.inch on the west
side uf the river. The horses were kept in a pen, but
one night when the usual guard had been omitted, the
Indians opened the corral and the family was awakened
by hearing tlie horses escaping un a dead run. There
was a light moon, and barefooted and in their night-
clothes John Bowles and his sons finally succeeded in
driving the horses back without a fight. His son Doke
stood guard behind a screen while John Bowles himself
stood under a hickberry tree on the east side of the
river, armed with a long shot-gun and six-shooter.
Doke had not been long on gui^rd when he heard the

234 THE HISTORY OF

report of his father's shotgun, and as he and his broth-
ers ran up they heard their father remark, as he rose
from scalping a prostrate Indian: "Hog my cats! I've
got one of them." This was the only expletive Mr.
Bowles ever used. He never swore nor allowed his
boys to do so, especially within hearing of their mother.
Mr. Bowies said there were three Indians, afid he first
discovered them 50 feet away approaching in single
file close behind each other. He fired one barrel of his
shot-gun and one of the Indians fell and the other two
disappeared. The next morning about 30 steps from
the first Indian was found a second dead Indian with
three buckshot through the bowels. The trail was
followed sometime afterward and a third dead Indian
found about five miles from the fight. All had been
killed by the first shot from John Bowles' shot-gun!
This exploit is perhaps withuut parallel in Indian war-
fare, and minute accounts of the affair were printed at
the time. The shot-gun is in the p^^ssession of one of
Mr. Bowles' Texas descendants, and his son David
Crockett Bowles, has, among other family historical
papers, a newspaper clipping containing an account of
the fight with a cut of the shot-gun. John Bowles
joined the scouts and was in the battle (called massa-
cre) on the Leona. In 1859 he settled on the Leona
near where this battle occurred His son Doke at this
time was married and had a ranch on the Blanco river,
and while he and his wife were on an excurbion to the
mountains they narrowly escaped death at the hands
of the same band of Comanches which killed his father
on the follow ing day, October 28, 1859. The tragedy
of John Bow les' death made a great sensation on the
frontier and resulted in a relentless pursuit of the Co-

THE BOWLES FAMILY 235

manches by hissonDoke. John Bowles, accompanied
by Rev, Mr. H. G. Horton, had ridden in search of his
saddle-horse, which had been stolen by Indians the
previous night. After riding two miles the minister
bade him good-bye, and Mr. Bowles, continuing the
search shortly afterward saw his horse tied in a small
clearing close to a large clump of bushes. Although
aware that the tied horse was the centre of an Indian
ambuscade, Mr. Bowles had outwitted them so many
times that he attempted to approach dismounted from
behind; but when close to the horse he received three
arrows in the left breast, and as he fell they ran up
and lanced him. His body was found three weeks later
by his son Peter, scalped and reduced to a skeleton.
A monument marks the spot where he fell. The pur-
suit of the Indians was participated in by several of
the Bowles connection with other settlers under the
leadership of Doke Bowles, 'i'he pursuit and fighting,
extending fur hundreds of miles, was of unexampled
ferocity. Lieut. Hazen, afterwards chief of U. S.
Army Signal Service, whose widow married Admiral
Dewey, was dangerously .vounded in this fight. A
good account of the death of John Bowles and the pur-
suit to avenge it, is found in Sowell's "Texas Indian
Fights." The thirteen children of John Bowles and
his wife Millie Caroline Pate were: Nancy Adeline,
Hiram R., James F., Priscilla, John B., Fannie, Jane,
William B. (called Doke), Greenville (called Pete),
Caroline, David Crockett, Emmaline, Elizabeth.
NANCY ADELINE, b. 1825, m. Dr. Gustavus Kilgo.
She had four childreii, with one of whom, Dr. John
Kilgo, she is now living in Savoy, Ark.
HIRAM R., b. Feb. 16, 1S27; went to the California

236 THE HISTORY OF

gold fields in 1852; returned to Bell county after
seven years with a fortune, and married there Miss
Elizabeth Townsend. 1 hey had four children.
Hiram died in 1874; his wife in 1873.

JAMES P., b. Aug. 14, 1828; married Miss Margaret
Martin, by whom he had four boys and t\\o girls.
He prospected in the California gold fields for four
years from 1852, and in 1858, while prospecting
for gold in Arizona, he was thrown from his mule,
and he was shot through the knee by the discharge
of his gun. The leg was amputated two months
later, but he died two days after the operation,
and was buried in Tombstone City, Ariz. His
wife died several years afterwards in Delrio, Tex.
A son, Hy J. Bowles, is District and County
Clerk, Uvalde, Texas.

PRISCILLA, b. 1830; married John Webb, who died
in Mississippi. Priscilla. the mother of a large
family, still lives in Mississippi.

JOHN B., b. 1831. He went to the California gold
fields in 1852; came back to Bell c.'unty, Texas,
in 1854. He never married. He a as a great In-
dian fighter; experienced many dangers and hard-
ships in the continual frontier warfare, and was
killed by Mexicans at Presidia Del Norte, Mex.

FANNIE, b. May 13, 1832; married James Townsend,
who died in 1888. Fannie was the mother of four
teen children and is living in Buleson county, Tex.

JANE, b. 1833; marritd Joseph Townsend. She had
a large family and died in 1879.

WILLIAM B. (called DOKE), a famous Indian fighter,
b. 1834; moved to Uvalde county in 1854 and
there married .V.iss Amanda Ware in 1858. His

THE BOWLES FAMILY 237

exploits are preserved in Texas border history.
Was a man of energy and accumulated considerable
wealth, one of his properties consisting of the
large Uvalde Hotel surrounded by 200 acres of ir-
rigated land. He died Dec. 7, 1902, in Pueblo,
New Mexico.

GREENVILLE BOWLES, b. Feb. 28, 1836; married
Miss Amanda A. Brown in Uvalde county in 1856.
He was a sccut and Indian fighter; experienced all
the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and was
one of the largest of the Texas stockmen. He
died in 1898. His wife lives in Uvalde, Texas.

CAROLINE, b. July 2, 1837; married John McDowell
in 1853, and had a large family. Both lived and
died in Bell county.

DAVID CROCKETT BOWLES, b. March 10, 1839;
married Miss Mattie Jordan in Bell county on Oct.
15, 1868, by whom he had seven girls and five
boys; two of w hich, a boy and a girl, are dead.
He with his wife and ail his family except one
girl in Oklahoma, are living in Bell county, Tex.
David Crockett Bowles was named after the Texas
hero, and has survived many dangers. He was a
cowboy, Indian fighter, frontiersman, and was
City Marshal of Belton fjom 1878 to 1880. In
1881 took a contract to deliver prisoners from 35
counties to the Texas penitentiary. This was a
very dangerous and trying undertaking in those
days, when Texas swarmed with desperados and
the methods of travel and communication were
primitive. On one trip he crossed the Gulf of
Mexico tvvice. On another, guarding twelve pris
oners, he was one month and three days in the

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wilderness. After wearing a gun for 27 years, a
great part of tlie time in the service of the State
of Texas, he laid it aside to become a farmer and
stockraiser near where his father came in 1849 J^
Bell county, where he now lives.

EMMALINE, b. Feb. 9, 1840; married Joseph Brown
in Uvalde county. Their children were a girl and
a boy. Emmaline and her husband died in Uvalde
county in 189^ ".

ELIZABETH, b. Feb. g, 1842; married George Patter-
son in Uvalde county. They had nine children,
five boys and four girls. Elizabeth's husband was
a large stockman in Uvalde county, \\ here they
both died in 1904.

JOHN BOWLES,

who was a farmer and wheelwright in Goochland
county about 1810, was a nephew of Rev. Benjamin
Bowles who married Miss Harris, and so cousin ot John
Ludwell Bowles. There was an order of the Hanover
Court directing the Sheriff to pay to " Knight Bowles
and Thomas P. Bowles, co-guardians of the orphans of
Russell Bowles, who died in the Continental service,
viz., John, Caroline, Bolman ;ind Richard, an allowance
of 12 pounds per annum." It is very probable that
the John mentioned in this order was the John Bo>.vies,
farmer and wheelwright of Goochland county.
JOHN BOWLES married Martha Cocke. He died in
1826, leaving his widuw with twelve children.
The children's names were: John, Preston, Tjm,
William, Tarleton, James Henry, Bolman H.,

THE BOWLES FAMILY 239

Mary, Luvenia, Frances, Martha, Lucy.

JAMES H. was an officer of the Goochland Troop in
the Confederate Army.

BOLMAN H. served with the Virginia troops in the
war with Mexico, and upon the outbreak of the
Civil War aided in organizing the Hanover Light
Dragoons, was ist Lieutenant in that command,
and was killed at the battle of Manassas, July 21,
1861. He was famed for his dauntless bravery,
and many obituary eulogiums of him appeared in
the newspapers of the time. In these obituaries
it was stated that Lieut. Bowles remarked to a
fellow-officer that his dead body should remain
upon the field in the event of defeat, and the ac-
counts state with a mournful satisfaction that the
eyes of the dying hero lit up with joy at the sight
of the waving and triumphant banner of the Con-
federacy. One of his sons, Diocan Bowles, lives
at Vontay, Hanover county, Va.

MARY married Mr. Burford.

LUVENIA married Ben Harrison Woodson..

FRANCES married Mr. Robinson.

MARTHA, married Joseph Reuben Pleasants, and died
Oct. I, 1844. She. died when her son James was
three d?.ys old and James was raised by his grand-
mother Bowles until he was six years, and upon
her death he was taken into the family of his uncle
James H. Bowies. Upon the outbreak of the
Civil War, at 16 years of age he entered the
Goochland Troop, and while at home upon a fur-
lough he performed the astounding feat of captur-
ing single-handed fourteen armed Union soldiers.
This exploit, celebrated at the time, is spread on

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the Court Records of Goochland county. When
Dahlgren made his raid James had come home
to get a fresh horse, and was asleep in an upper
room of his uncle's house. When he awoke, his
aunt, Mrs. Bowles, informed him of the raid, and
that his two horses had been taken. Telling his
aunt he was going to get his horses, he put on an
uniform which he had on a previous occasion taken
from a Union soldier, and taking a short carbine,
started down the road in the same direction as the
Union troops, groups of which were occasionally
passing by the house. He hid in a place by the
roadside sheltered by heavy hanging branches.
A Union cavalryman leading two horses came
along, and hastily complied with the demand for
surrender, as James pointed the carbine at him.
Disarming his prisoner he mounting a horse and
ordering the prisoner to ride to one side and a little
in front of him, they proceeded towards his home.
Entering a large woods, they met a group of Uuion
soldiers. When close upon them he suddenly
demanded their surrender, which they did imme-
diately. He thereupon ordered them to drop their
arms in the road and ride beside the first prisoner.
Keeping them covered they proceeded until they
met a third group, who, stunned with astonish-
ment at being called upon to surrender by troops
wearing Union uniforms, instantly, upon the stern
demand, dropped their arms in the read. One
prisoner now suddenly galloped away and warned
two soldiers who were watering horses at the well
in front of the Bowles home. Upon the demand
to surrender these two opened fire, but upon one

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being killed by James, the other surrendered. The
shooting attracted his uncle James H. Bowles and
Dr. Quintius A. Snead, who nOiV galloped up and
aided in delivering the 14 prisoners, horses and ac-
coutrements to the Confederate Government.
LUCY, married John L. Powers. Her two children
were John L. and Martha L. Martha L. married
Randolph R. Woodson, and two of her children
are Jacob L Woodson and Mrs. Lucy C. Gude of
Richmond, Va. The Woodson family is also an
old one in Virginia, the first settler of that name
arriving in 1619.

Other descendants of John Bowles and Martha
Cocke are Mrs. Ed. Nuckolsof Rockville, Hanover
county; J. C. Bowles of Columbia, Va., and his
cousin B. B. Bowles of Richmond, Va.; Mrs.
Stewart Cottrell uf Cardwell, Va.
It has been stated that every living adult male of
this branch of the Bowles family was in the Con-
federate Army.

GIDEON BOWLES of Oxford, England, was
a merchant in Dublin, Ire., in 1752. His oldest son
John married Eleanor, the granddaughter of Sir William
Parsons. Of the sons of John and Eleanor five came
to Virginia. One, Gideon, went to Goochland county;
James went to Leesburg, Loudon county, and John
went to Winchester, Frederick county, Va. The
other two emigrant brothers were Stephen and Hugh.
The family is mentioned in "Notes of the Parsons
Family."
JOHN BOWLES settled in Winchester before 1800

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His children were Jacob, Avery, Isaac, James,
Mrs. Eva Newcomb, Mrs. Catharine Tutstone,
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Mrs. Sallie Coapheabner,
Mrs. Nancy Carper, Mrs. Wm. Keffert.

JACOB, son ot John, born in Winchester, Va. He
had nine children; the living ones are: James A.,
of Paris, III.; Thomas, of Paris, 111.; Zachary, of
Kansas, 111.; R. C, Jacob and Elizabeth, of
Champagne, 111.

JAMES A., son of Jacob, was born April 27, 1843, ^t
Winchester, Va.; married in 1868 Isabella S.
Sv\artz, of Newmarket, Va. He served in the
Confederate Army under Stonewall Jackson, in
Co. B, loth Va. Infantry. He was in the battles of
Martinsburg, ist and 2d Bull Run, Shenandoah,
Cross Keys, Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, White
Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Fred-
erick City, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettys-
burg; wounded, taken prisoner and confmed 20
months at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout, Md.
In 1870 he moved to Paris, 111., where he is a con-
tractor and builder. James A. and Isabella had
seven children, one dying in infancy. The living
children are

WALTER CHESTER, travelling salesman for A.
C. McClurg Co., of Chicago. Lives in
Springfield, 111.

ORION A., salesman for McClurg Co. Lives in
Springfield, 111.

VALLEY E., and IDA H,, live in Paris, 111.

JAMES TENBROECK is a student at the Univer-
sity cf Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

PAUL G., salesman for McClurg Co. Lives in
Chicago.

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The son of John Bowles:
JAMES BOWLES, was born Feb. 28, 1810. He was
a very prominent farmer and lived many years
near Winchester, Va., and by his integrity and
sobriety won the affections of his neighbors. He
was an extensive raiser of fine horses, especially
the Black Hawk Morgan strain. He was a noted
breeder and acquired a fortune. He married early
in life Mary Louise Smith, born April 9, 1821.
James died Oct. 6, 1862; Mary Louise died April
19, 1889. Their children were:
Isaac W., b. Sept. 24, 1838; d. July 26, 1839.
James Edwin, b. Dec. 5, 1839; ^- June 20, 1861.
Stuart Baldwin, b. Mar. 4, 1841; d. April 19, 1901.
Jonathan S., b. Sept. 16, 1842; d. Mar. 18, 1843.
Henry C, b. Jan. 4, 1844; d. Feb. 17, 1878.
Charles M., b. Dec 5, 1845; <^* Feb. , 1889.
Wilson W., b. March 13, 1847.
Victor S.,b Sept. 5, 1848. Lives in Dallas, Tex.
Joseph W.J b. Nov. 21, 1849. Firm of P. O.

Bowles, stockdealer and farmer.
John L., b. April 14, 1851; d. Feb. 14, 1881.
Milton C, b. March 26, 1853. Speculator, Fort

Worth, Texas.
Thomas S., b. July 10, 1855; d. June 6, 1857.
Fannie S., b. Dec. 12, 1856.
Oliver C, b. Dec. 14, 1858. Dairyman, Fort

Worth, Texas.
Minnie L., b. Sept. 20, 1861; mar. Jas. Thomas,

Fort Worth, Texas.
James, b. Jan. 7, 1863; d. 1863.
WILSON W. BOWLES married Oct. 29, 1879 Annie
Virginia Lodge, who was born March 19, 1850.

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Wilson W. is a stockdealer and farmer near Mill-
wood, Va. He is an extensive landowner and
widely and favorably known in Virginia. The
children of Wilson W. and Annie Virginia are:

Joseph William, b. Aug. lo, 1880.

Wilson Lodge, b. April 7, 1883.

Harry Hallovvell, b. Sept. 7. 1884.

Bertha Anna, b. Aug. 23, 1888.
JOSEPH WARREN BOWLES is an extensive land
owner and farmer in Clarke co., Va. He is a man
<:)f the most honorable character, and his advice
and influence are much valued by his neighbors.
He married Feb. 17, 1898, Kate Varina Garvin,
daughter of A. H. Garvin, owner of the large Will-
wood Flour Mills. Their children are:

Joseph Warren, b. Feb. 5, 1899.

Garvin, b. Nov. 23, 1900.

James Addison, b. April 7, 1902.
FANNIE S. was born one and a quarter miles south-
east of Winchester. She was educated at Fairfax
Hall and the Dunbar Female Institute. She mar-
ried May 28, 1875, Brice W. Catlett, of Morgan
county, W. Va. In 1874 Brice W. Catlett was
elected Senator, representing the I3rh Senatorial
W. Va. District; comprising the counties Berkely,
Jefferson and Morgan. In March, 1898, the family
moved to Berry's Ferry, Clarke co., Va., where
they have since resided upon a farm. Through
the influence of Brice W. Catlett two large steel
bridges have been constructed over the Shenan-
doah river in Clarke county. Their children are:

Gray, b. July 7, 1876; d. March 19, 1877.

William Brice, b. Jan. 27, 1878.

THE BOWLBS FAMILY 245

Charles Victor, b. Dec. 12, 1879.
Oliver Warren, b. July 19, 1884.
Lucas Wilson, b. March 23, 1888.
James Garland Hurst, b. Feb. 22, 1888.

The brother of John of Winchester and
James of Loudon county:
GIDEON BOWLES, who, as stated in "Missouri
Pioneer Families," was a member of the St. James
Colony that settled in Goochland county, Va. He
was accompanied by his wife. Their son Ander-
son married Jane Thomas and settled in Cumber-
land county, Va. Their children were Caleb,
Sarah, James, Gideon, Ann, Anderson, Virginia,
Elizabeth, Augusta and David. Ann and Gideon
died in Virginia. The rest of the family came
with their parents to Madison county, Ky., in
1806. In 181 1 they settled in St. Louis county,
Mo., where iVvr. Bowles died ihe following year.
his widow lived until 1834. Caleb was judge of
the County Court of St. Louis county for several
terms. He w as married twice, finally settling in
Saline county, where ke died. Sarah married
Stephen Maddox of Virginia, who settled in St.
Louis county, by whom she had fifteen children.
James v% as a ranger in Captain Musick's Company
and was killed by Indians in 1814 at Cap-au-Gris,
vv hen 20 years old. Anderson settled in Missis-
sippi and died there. Virginia married Richard
Ripley of St. Louis county. Elizabeth married
Richard Sapingt jn a..d lived in Illinois, a wid 'vv,
in 1875. Augusta married Jacilla Wells, and died
in Texas. David married first Julia Mackay,

246 THE HISTORY OF

daughter of Captain James Mackay of St. Louis, by
whom he had James A., Jane, Jesse, Nathan Z., Mary
E., George R., John B., Julia V., Gubtave, Jefferson
R. and David J. Mr. Bowles settled in Montgomery
county at an early date and still resides there (1875).
He is by trade a tanner, but has been a farmer the
greater part of his life and has prospered in more than
an ordinary degree. After the death of his first vvife
he married, in his old age, the widow Giles, of Lincoln
county. His neighbors told with much m.erriment that
upon arriving home with his new wife he danced about
the room with an exuberance uf joy, and waving his
hat about his head he accidentally struck the lamp,
dashing it to pieces upon the floor In a moment the
house was on fire and it \vas only by the most prompt
and energetic exertions it was saved from destruction.
He was a great hunter in his earlier years, and during
one *vinter he killed 120 deer, 3 elk and 4(X» raccoons,
besides gathering 350 gallons of wild honey. The
same year he killed the famous buck which hunters
called "General Buidine*' and which had 33 prongs on
its horns. During the Civil War he was bold and fear-
less in the expression of Southern sentiments, and on
that account suffered severely from the depredations
of the militia.

JUDGE PINCKNEY DOVVNIE BOWLES,
son of Isaac and Emily Holioway Bowies, was born in
Edgefield, S.C., July 17, 1835; educated academic and
law departments of University of Virginia; studied in
office of JLdge Samuel M. Gowan at Asheville C. H.,
S. C. Married Feb. 28, 1863, Alice Irene Steane.

THE BOWLES FAMILY 247

Located in Sparta C. H., Conecuh county, Ala., April
15, 1859. Elected Lieutenant Conecuh Guard, Ala.
Vol. Corps, July 4, i860; Captain April i, 1861; re-
elected Captain at Yorktown, Va., May i, 1862; pro-
moted Major Aug. 22, 1862; Lieut. -Col. Sept. 30, 1862;
Col. Oct. 3, 1862; Brig. -Gen. April 2, 1865. Opened
law offices in Evergreen, Ala., in 1887. Probate Judge
July I, 1887, to Nov. 3, 1898.

MRS. CLEMENTINE BOWLES

who was born in Virginia, and raised six miles from
Richmond on the James, was the wife of William
David Bowles of Kentucky, whose father was from
Maryland. During the Civil War she was so enthusi-
astic in her Southern sentiments and so feared that she
was ordered across the Union lines. Mrs. Bowles is of
Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. She is a charter
member of Mary Fuller Percival Chapter of the D. A.
R.; charter member of the Memorial Association and
U. D. C. of Arkansas; now serving her fourth term as
Registrar of the U. D. C. of Arkansas, where she now
resides.

JAMES R. BOWLES,

of Virginia, who moved to Philadelphia and died there,
was descended from one of three brothers who came
from England and settled in King William county, Va.
Two of these brothers returned to England. The one
who remained may have been David Bowles, elder of
Dover Baptist Church in 1783. The father of James
R. Bowles was a shipbuilder. James R. married (i)
Miss Mary Sheppurd; (2) Miss Bridgeland. Among
his children are Richard, of Petersburg, Va.; William,

248 THE HISTORY OF

of Philadelphia; Mattie S, of Philadelphia; F. T.
Bowles. The destruction cf the Bowles records in
the fire of 1885 at King William C. H., Va., prevents
an historical record of this branch of the Bowies family,
but old deeds and traditions prove this branch to have
possessed wealth and position in King Vv illiam county
during the early nineteenth century.
MATTIE S., who married Mr. Stevenson, has five liv-
ing children, viz., Lieut, E. S. Stevenson, Wm.G.
Stevenson, James Haslet Stevenson, Jr., Sarah
Winifred Stevenson, Martha E. Stevenson.

C. L. BOWLES
of Louisville, Ky , a veteran of the Union Army, is the
youngest of iiine sons, of whom three are alive, two
of whom are in the tobacco business. The grandfather
of C. L, Bowles was a Scotchman, and his father born
in Virginia. His wife is of French-German descent;
her father was from Baltimore, and her grandfather,
who owned schooners on the Chesapeake, was drowned
by the sinking of one in a storm. Mr. Bowies is a
promiinent restaurant keeper of Louisville.

DETACHED NOTES.

Thomas B. Bowles carried on spinning mills in
1816 at Jones Creek, in Powhatan and Chesterfield
counties, Va. Thomas B. Bowles married Rebecca
Flournoy, July 12. 1815, by Rev. John Woclbridge.
(William and Mary Quarterly, Vols, i, 2).

Samuel Bowles married Emily Worthington Jan.
19, 1769. He was Ensigh in Seventh Company Dis-
trict Militia; appointed to assist in drilling the militia

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of the Western District in 1762. (Worthington Annalsj.

Thomas Bowles of Isle of Wight county, Va.,
bought from tdward Davis of Nansemond county,
thirty acres of land in Isle of Wight county for $200.00,
Oct. 6, 1807. Thomas made his will Sept. 25, 1815,
and names children Elish^, Elizabeth and Nancy. (Isle
of Wight Records )

Thomas Bowles, son of Benjamin; Coke Bowles,
Irving vV. Bowles, Elish i Bowles, and Smith Blakey
of Boles are recorded as paying taxes on land in Hen-
rico county, Va., from 1799 tc 1805.

Joseph F. Bowles married Sarah Henley Oct. 22,
1827. Recorded in Henrico county, Va.

Elisha Bowles married Elizabeth Harris. Oct. 11,
1815.

Corbin Bowles married Rhoda C. Hooper, daughter
of Daniel Hooper, March 11, 1817.

Edmund Bowles and Polly Mosby, Dec. 26, 1820.

Jeffrey Bowles of Hanover and Sally, daughter of
William Morris and sister of Robert Morris, Jan. 31,
1788.

William Bowles and Eliza, daughter of Christo-
pher Butler, Sept. 25, 1821. Henrico Records.

Will of Mary Bowles of Hanover co., Va. Dated
July 8, 1795; proved Dec. 8, 1807. Gives youngest
son Augustine real and personal estate. Thcnias and
Millie Bowles witnesses. Henrico D. B. 3, p. 358.

Virginia Military Certificate Book i, p. 536, has
copy of warrant fcr 200 acres of land issued to Thomas

2^0 THE HISTORY OF

P. Bowles, sergeant in the State Line who served three
years Pensioned in 1831; $120.00 annually. From
Hanover county, in Colonel Marshall's Regiment.

Military Certificate Book 3, p. 95, has cop/ of
land warrant to Dawson Cuoke, assignee, and Betsy
Bowles, only child and heir of Peter Bowles, deceased,
private who served three years in 2d Va. Continental
Line. Warrant for 100 acres. Signed J. W.Pleasants.

Va. Grant Book 30, p. 529. has grant to George
Bowies of 90 acres in Bedford county, on the north
branches of Staunton river, dated May 21, 1794, and
signed Henry Lee, Governor.

York Records Orders 6, pp. 632 to 637, copy of
Sheriff's payments to Joseph and Clara Bowles, or-
phans of John Bowles, a soldier who was killed in the
Continental service, pension for years 1791 to 1797.
Clara Bowles, daughter of Joseph Bov-. ies, uho died in
the service of the Uuited States, and Rebecca Washer,
mother of Joseph Bowles, are mentioned in theseorders.

Charles Bowles enlisted for 3 years Feb. 2, 1778.
James Bowles enlisted for 3 years July 14, 1777. Rev.
War Statement of Hanover County, Va.

Matthew Bowles received pension of $109.98 for
Revolutionary service in Virginia Militia, when he was
71 years of age. Pension Report of 1835, p. 97.

Benjamin Bowles, North Carolina Continental
Line, received pension of $131.20 on July 4, 1826.
Rev. War Statement of Montgomery, N. C.

George Bowles, of Broome, N. Y., pensioned May
20, 1818, when 70 years old.

John Bowles of Rhode Island Line, pensioned June

THE BOWLES FAMILY 2$t

30, 1818, age 69. Rensellaer Co., N. Y. Statement.

Waller Bowles, of N. Y. State Line, granted pen-
sion Mar. 4, 1831, age 69. Statement of Orange, N. Y.

Daniel Bo\^ les. Revolutionary soldier. Statement
of New Castle, Delaware.

Ernest B. Bowles, ist Lieut. First Tenn. Infantry.

Thomas Q. Bowles, Captain Third Ohio Infantry.
Heitman, Vol. 2, p. 193,

The names and records of soldiers of the Bowies
name are in the archives and repositories of many
States and in many County Courthouses. The ex-
pense of gathering this data has, however, prevented
its presentation in this volume.

In Louisa County, Va., C. H. are the wills uf
Caroline G. A. K., Susan D., and Richard C. Bowles.

In Cumberland, Va,, there is the will of John
Bowles.

Colonel Bowles commanded Indiana troops in the
Mexican War.

Captain Bowles killed Captain Croghan in a duel
in Kentucky in 1822.

Robert B Bowles, Comptroller of the Currency,
b. 1856; d. 1902.

Colonel John Bowles, U. S. A., married the
daughter of Buffalo Bill Cody, and lived in Sheridan,
Wyo., until his death about 1902.

Rev. Benjamin Franklin Bowles, a distinguished
Universalist, born at Portsmouth, N. H., Mar. 4, 1824;
died Jan. 9, 1892. His third wife, who was Ada C.
Burpee, survived him. By his second and third wife
he had six children.

Charles S. P. Bowles, Delegate to England f^t U.
S. Sanitary Commission, 1864.

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The Bowles Live Stock Company, with main office
in Chicago, and branches in many Western cities, is
one of largest cattle buyers ii. the United States.

THE BOWLES FAMILY mn

REFERENCES.

1 School Mag. Chronicle, N. Y., 1862., p.^43»

2 Lower's Roll of Battle Abbey.

3 Gourley's Tales of the Border, Edinburgh, 177^*

4 Boleden Book, p. i.

5 Surtees, Vol. i, p. 798.

6, 7, 8, 9 Bowles Roll of England.

10 Marluw's Hist. p. 162.

II, 12, 13, 14, 15 Bowles Roll.

16 Visitation of Kent, 1653--8

17 Genealogical Roll of Geo. Bowles, Glasgow 1864.

18 Cal. State Papers, Col. Series 1 574-1660.

19 Pass. List of "Hopew€ll.'*

20 John R. Bolles Gen., 1865.

21, 22 Savage's Diet., Hinman'sCon. Sett.,. Samuel
Bowles' Notes.

23 Hist. Pioneer Fam. of Mo., Bryan a^Kl Rose.

24 Warw ick Records. Hist, of Susan Bowles.

25 Warwick Records. Susan Bowles Hist.

26 Va. Land Office, Pat. Book i.

27 Va. Land Office, Pat. Book i.

28 Campbell's Va. Hist- List of Members.

29 Susan Bowles Hist.

30 Va. Land Office, Pat. Book 3.

31 Va. Land Office, Book 5.

32, 33, 34 Warwick Records in Susan Bo^vleb Hist.

35 Mill. Certificate Book, No. i, p. 536.

36 Dr. James Bowles.

37 York County Va. Records; Deeds, Orders, Bk 7.

38 Records James City Va. Bk. i.

39 New Kent Records in Susan Bowles Hist.

40 John Ryder's Hanover Va. Pedigree.

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41 "Contemporary Biography/' London, 1801.

42 Mary Bowles Buerger and others.

43 "Public Characters and Contemporary Biogra-

phy/* "Authentic Memoirs of Gen. Wm. Au-
gustus Bowles/' "Remarkable Career of a
Great Adventurer" (Madrid 1809); Pickett's
"Hist, of Alabama/' "Tales of Outposts
London, 1839; Archives of Georgia, 1819.

44 Pioneer Families of Mo., by Bryan and Rose.

45 John Bowles Biblical Record.

46 Va. Patent Book, pp. 25, 500.

47 Susan Bowles Hist.

48 Lucy Ann Bowles Hoye.

49 Va. Land Office, Grant Book.

50 Betty Lewis Bowles.

51 Va. Land Office, Books 34, 35.

52 Va. Land Office Warrants 34 and 16.

53 Land Office Pat. 40. Henrico D. B. 7.

54 Va. Mil. Certificate Book i.

55 Grant Book 51, p 490.

56 Henrico CO. D B p 334; 4, p 513.

57 Va. Land Office.

58 Henrico co. D B p 708.

59 Grant Book 9, p 107.

60 Grant Book II, p 84. S. Bowles Hist.

61 Land Warrant No. 783.

62 War. nil and Certificate in Va. Land Office.

63 Hen. CO. D B 6, p 276.

64 Hen. CO., D B 472 and 143.

65 Hen. D B 7, p 14,

66 Hist. Register of Va., p. 373, Hen. D B pp 8,

417-

67 Hist. Register of Va., p 261--2. S. Bowles Hist.

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Rich. Rec. D D 109 and 985. Pat. Book 35,

P253.
The greater number of facts are taken from family

record, and it seen s needless to indicate the origin.

The compiler however will be glad to indicate the

source upon request.

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